About David
David Potts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. He practices in Florida and offers therapy for adults, young adults, and teens, focusing on clear, practical steps rather than jargon. Sessions emphasize small achievable changes rather than perfection.
He uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs, including cognitive-behavioral ideas, dialectical skills, emotionally-focused work, existential thinking, and mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
That variety lets him tailor plans for mood, motivation, sleep, and coping with life changes. He pays attention to root causes as well as current habits that keep problems going. David has experience across outpatient and residential settings and has supported people facing addiction, bipolar challenges, trauma, and complex mental health histories.
He has also worked with teens who have experienced abandonment, loss, or abuse. That background informs his steady, practical style in sessions. His counseling approach is direct and compassionate.
He aims to build a trusting space where clients can talk through difficulties, clarify goals, and practice new skills. Progress is framed as gradual steps toward better functioning. In online sessions he helps clients address parenting stress, career pressure, intimacy-related issues, and attention challenges like ADHD.
He welcomes international clients and offers several remote session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches for Online Anxiety and Life Stress
David often uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood. He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication during high-stress moments. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship patterns and attachment concerns are part of the problem.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your goals and preferences, try specific techniques, and adjust the plan as you go. That way the work evolves to match what is most helpful for symptom relief, coping, and improved daily functioning.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and short coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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