About Ryan
Ryan Glathar is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of experience. She works with people who feel stuck by relationship problems, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, or life transitions. Her aim is to help clients find clearer steps forward and rebuild a sense of control and calm.
She focuses on practical, person-centered work. Sessions start by listening to what matters most and identifying the main obstacles. Then she and the client try straightforward tools to reduce stress, manage strong emotions, and improve communication.
Background and approach
Progress is tracked in simple, concrete ways so change feels real. Ryan uses a mix of approaches rather than one fixed method. She draws from client-centered therapy to keep conversations grounded in the client's experience.
She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions. Over her career she has helped people facing family conflict, parenting strain, separation and divorce, and issues tied to attachment or codependency. She also supports people dealing with trauma, domestic violence, substance use, and compassion fatigue.
Work can address both immediate coping and longer-term patterns. Sessions are offered in English and are provided from California. Ryan aims to build trust and respect in the therapeutic relationship and to collaborate on goals that fit each person's life.
She encourages small, achievable steps and honest conversation about what’s working and what needs to change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. The therapist offers empathy and helps the person clarify values and goals, which can be useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and decisions about life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life changes. It provides step-by-step strategies to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and alter behavior patterns that keep problems going.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These tools help with anger, intense anxiety, and relationship conflicts by building calm, regulation, and clearer communication.
Finding the right mix is a team effort. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, pace, and preferences. That plan can change over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and texting can be used for brief check-ins, skill practice, or steady support between fuller sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and help maintain momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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