About David
David Routly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of experience helping people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, and trauma. He takes a straightforward and respectful approach. He listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and practical steps forward.
He focuses on what a person can do day to day. Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions, ways to change unhelpful thoughts, and tools to improve sleep and relationships.
Background and approach
He draws on methods that match each person's needs rather than a single fixed plan. Work with him tends to be collaborative and down-to-earth. He uses client-centered techniques to understand a person’s priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to break cycles of unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed. David also uses EMDR for clients processing traumatic memories when that fits the situation.
He pays attention to life transitions, parenting stress, grief, and issues like ADHD and intimacy concerns. His practice includes support for LGBT clients and a wide range of related concerns. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
He practices in Georgia and conducts therapy in English. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding what matters most to the person. In online sessions he listens closely and helps clients identify priorities and practical next steps to try between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Online CBT sessions often include simple exercises to track thinking patterns, set small behavior goals, and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process traumatic memories when appropriate. In a remote setting EMDR sessions are adapted so the therapist and client can work through memory processing and coping strategies together.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, symptoms, and comfort level, and adjusts techniques over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you keep face-to-face contact from wherever you are, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging fits brief updates or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using methods like CBT, DBT skills, and EMDR effectively.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- 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
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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