About Reiss
Reiss Hurt is an AASW social worker who focuses on practical support for anxiety and related concerns. He works in a straightforward, down-to-earth way that helps people feel heard and make small, doable changes. Reiss aims to build on each person's strengths rather than starting from criticism or blame.
Reiss uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to address stress, low self-esteem, depression and anxiety. He also brings motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies for people wanting clearer direction at work or in life.
Background and approach
Sessions usually focus on what clients want to change and the next steps to get there. With four years' experience, Reiss has helped people dealing with trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction and caregiver stress. He also supports people navigating identity questions, kink and alternative sex culture concerns, body image and attachment-related worries.
Reiss aims to make therapy practical and relevant to day-to-day life. Clients can expect calm, direct conversation with time for skills practice and short exercises. Reiss views clients as experts in their own story and works collaboratively to outline small experiments between sessions.
He strives to keep language simple and actions manageable. Reiss practises from Australia and sees clients in English. He offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
His sessions operate through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Reiss commonly uses cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness in online sessions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people test unhelpful thinking patterns. It suits anxiety, stress and low mood by teaching practical skills and short behavioural experiments. Mindfulness therapy involves simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with stress, rumination and emotional overwhelm.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Reiss will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit your situation. He treats the choice as collaborative and will adjust methods as you progress to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make engagement easier. Video suits longer clinical conversations and skills practice, phone can be useful with lower bandwidth, and brief check-ins work well by text or live chat. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, study and family time while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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