About Russell
Dr. Russell Gaede is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 25 years of experience. He blends practical methods with a down-to-earth style to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship difficulties.
He is based in Utah and offers services in English, including to international clients. Dr. Gaede uses straightforward conversations and goal-focused work to help people find clearer direction.
He draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address anxious thoughts, compulsive behaviors, and mood problems.
Background and approach
He also uses existential ideas to help people clarify values and purpose. Clients can expect brief, focused strategies alongside deeper conversations about meaning and identity. Dr.
Gaede adapts his approach based on what each person needs and prefers. He has experience with addiction, mood disorders, panic, obsessive-compulsive issues, and problems tied to life transitions. He has worked with adults facing challenges related to family of origin, blended families, divorce and separation, and first responder stress.
He also supports people navigating LGBT concerns, career questions, grief, and compassion fatigue. His background includes teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
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How therapy approaches translate to online care
Dr. Gaede often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that fuel anxiety and panic. CBT sessions online focus on concrete skills such as challenging unhelpful thoughts, building exposure steps for panic or OCD, and planning behavioral experiments that can be practiced between sessions.He also brings existential therapy into conversations to help people clarify values, life direction, and meaning when facing big changes. Those discussions can look like thoughtful questions about priorities, working through uncertainty, and setting goals that reflect what matters most.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust techniques over time in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets the therapist and client read facial cues and have longer, interactive sessions. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or steady contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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