About Drauzin
Drauzin Kern is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 38 years of clinical experience. He focuses on anxiety and stress alongside depression, relationship strain, and identity concerns. He aims to make conversations approachable and practical for people in hard moments.
He uses person-centered listening to help people feel heard. He also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build small habits that change behavior. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients clarify values and take action even when anxiety is present.
Background and approach
In sessions he often works on communication skills and boundary-setting. He helps people who are dealing with grief, trauma, caregiving strain, or the emotional fallout of divorce and separation. He also supports those handling work-related compassion fatigue and first responder stress.
Kern has long experience with LGBTQ+ experiences and identity questions. He helps people who feel isolated, who are exploring sexual health or commitment issues, or who want to repair family relationships and attachment wounds. Practical tools are part of his approach.
Clients may practice coping strategies, role-play difficult conversations, and set manageable goals between sessions. The focus is on steady progress and building skills that fit everyday life. He offers therapy from Louisiana and speaks English.
Sessions are offered through online formats to reach people living in other places and with varying schedules.
Therapeutic approaches for anxiety and life transitions online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice distressing thoughts without getting stuck in them and then act toward the life they value. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions tied to identity or relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on finding and testing unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors that reduce symptoms. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and improving day-to-day coping. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and empathy so the person can explore feelings and make their own choices without judgment.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean blending techniques from different approaches and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging fits quick check-ins or times when writing helps. These options make it possible to keep continuity during moves, busy schedules, or when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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