About David
David Powell is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. He works with concerns like intimacy issues, self-esteem, addiction, grief, trauma, and parenting stress. David practices in Florida and holds an LCSW credential.
David focuses on practical steps people can use right away. He listens closely and helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions aim to surface patterns, try small changes, and build skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
He mixes client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and habits. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship or attachment issues come up. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase calm.
Over a dozen years of work have included helping people with substance use, eating and sleeping problems, anger, career transitions, and coping with chronic illness. That experience informs a flexible, down-to-earth approach rather than a one-size-fits-all method. For people worried about where to start, David asks a few focused questions in early sessions to set clear goals.
He uses regular check-ins to track progress and adjusts strategies when needed. The emphasis is on usable tools and steady forward movement so clients can notice real changes in their day-to-day life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience at the center, with the therapist following the client's lead and reflecting what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It works well for anxiety, stress, sleep and eating problems, and many forms of depression because it gives specific skills to practice between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets attachment and relationship patterns by helping people notice and shift emotional responses that keep them stuck. It is useful for intimacy and communication concerns and for improving how people connect with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will help you decide which methods to try based on your goals, preferences, and what shows progress. This is a collaborative process with regular review and adjustments as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to stay connected between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel, and they support continuing care when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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