About Ryan
Ryan Garza is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of clinical experience. He brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. He practices from Utah and speaks English.
He uses a client-centered approach that starts with what each person needs. Sessions are collaborative and built around clear goals. Ryan mixes practical tools and gentle encouragement so people can make steady changes in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps clients notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and improve focus in stressful moments.
Ryan also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to help people get unstuck and move toward goals. He works with a wide range of concerns that include trauma and abuse, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include codependency, substance use, guilt and shame, isolation, and men’s issues.
Clients can expect a respectful, encouraging tone and straightforward planning. Humor may appear when it fits the moment. Treatment plans are tailored to each person and adjusted as progress is made.
To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability. Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy begins by listening to what matters most to the person and shaping sessions around those priorities. It is useful for people who need a collaborative plan and clear goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and habits and practicing new, more useful responses; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches skills for emotion regulation, tolerance of distress, and better communication, which can be useful for intense mood swings and relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to match each person's needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about which tools to use are made together and adjusted as progress is seen.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for full face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and easier when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent touchpoints when that fits a busy day. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into everyday life and ongoing care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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