About David
David Hicks is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. He practices in Kentucky and brings ten years of experience to conversations about relationships and everyday pressure. He focuses on real problems that show up in daily life.
Sessions look at communication struggles, feelings of emptiness or shame, and hard decisions like commitment or recovery from substance use. He also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, and intellectual disability related challenges.
Background and approach
David uses approaches centered on the person and on practical skills. He listens first, then works with each person to build simple steps and coping strategies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used when thinking patterns get in the way, and solution-focused techniques help people make clear, short-term changes.
In sessions he helps people practice new responses to control issues, impulsivity, and codependency. He addresses family problems and communication breakdowns in ways that focus on the individual’s goals. He also brings an understanding perspective to trauma tied to domestic violence and addiction without making clients relive details they are not ready to share.
His background includes ten years of clinical work in community settings in Kentucky. David draws on that experience to help people feel steadier and more able to handle stressors. He works at the pace each person needs and helps them track progress through small, measurable steps.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress care
David uses Client-Centered Therapy to make space for each person’s story and priorities, focusing on understanding and empathy while the client leads the pace. This approach helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental place to sort out feelings or regain direction.He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers straightforward tools for anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful thinking patterns, and it helps people practice new ways of responding between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That collaboration includes checking in on what works and changing course as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and exercises, phone calls work well for lower bandwidth or a quick check-in, and messaging formats can fit brief updates or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work focused on practical change and emotional relief.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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