About Ryan
Ryan Foley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. He draws on five years of experience in a mental health clinic and keeps sessions focused and practical. Ryan aims to create an atmosphere where clients can speak honestly without fear of judgment and feel heard.
In sessions he uses straightforward tools to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve daily functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Ryan also works with parts-based ideas from Internal Family Systems to help clients understand internal conflicts and self-protective patterns. He combines these methods to suit each person's situation rather than following a single formula.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Clients often bring concerns such as trauma or abuse, grief and loss, attachment or abandonment wounds, caregiver stress, and struggles with purpose or isolation. Ryan offers practical strategies for communication problems, commitment worries, and impulse control.
He also supports people navigating gender dysphoria, guilt, and forgiveness work. Ryan practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. He is available for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Ryan commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in ways that fit remote work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which can be practiced between sessions and discussed over video or chat. DBT teaches emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can be coached live and reinforced with brief messages or phone check-ins.He also draws on Internal Family Systems ideas to help people notice different internal parts and how they relate to one another. That parts-based language can be explored in conversation, written exercises, and short reflective messages sent between appointments. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the therapy process, and the therapist will work together with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and comfort level.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone calls suit people who have limited bandwidth or prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging allow short check-ins and written practice. These options give flexibility for scheduling, pacing, and follow-up support while using the same therapeutic tools as in-person work.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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