About David
David Whiteman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate depression and relationship struggles. David aims to create a straightforward space where people can talk through what’s hard and build on the strengths they already have.
He leans on practical, evidence-based approaches to help people make changes that matter day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear steps for coping with worry, improving sleep, and handling grief or career pressure. He also addresses trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and complex situations such as co-morbidity and caregiver stress. David works collaboratively and treats people as the experts on their own lives.
He listens for what matters most and helps set small, usable goals. That can mean learning new skills, testing out different behaviors, or refocusing on personal values. His background includes extensive work across common and complex concerns such as attachment issues, abandonment, body image, communication problems, and blended family challenges.
He also supports people affected by cancer or natural and human-caused disasters. Sessions are offered from Indiana and conducted in English. David accepts international clients and uses flexible formats to match people’s schedules.
He guides the first steps so people can choose an approach that fits their goals.
How different approaches shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage low mood. Both methods aim to produce practical changes that people can use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest methods that match your needs. That choice is collaborative - clients and therapist try strategies and adjust based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video calls let you work face to face when you want deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options give flexibility for scheduling, different communication styles, and varied pacing of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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