About Ivan
Ivan Resto is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, anger, and mood concerns. He speaks English and works from Virginia, offering a straightforward, calm approach to difficult moments.
Resto listens first and then helps people identify small, practical steps they can take. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals like reducing panic attacks, improving sleep, or handling workplace stress.
Background and approach
He mixes conversational, problem-solving work with mindfulness practices to build coping skills that stick. He uses client-centered strategies to make sure each person’s needs guide the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, and trauma-focused methods are added when people need skills for intense emotions or to process past hurts. Clients can expect a direct but compassionate style. Resto helps people practice new skills in-session and apply them between meetings.
He also addresses family and parenting concerns by helping individuals improve communication and set healthier boundaries. With many years of practice in Virginia, Resto draws on experience across mood disorders, grief, and trauma and abuse. He aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life, helping people take steady steps toward better functioning and resilience.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, letting the therapist follow what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard while setting goals for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and panic. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, includes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills that are useful for intense moods and anger.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, symptoms and daily life. That collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques and adjust them over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, allow shorter or more frequent touchpoints, and make it easier to practice skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Utah
- Languages
- English
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