About Ryan
Dr. Ryan Hale is a licensed counselor with LPC and LCPC credentials who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on clear steps people can use between meetings.
He describes therapy as a conversation where goals and strategies are created together. He uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Background and approach
Client-centered methods guide sessions so people feel heard while still moving toward concrete goals. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas are used when people want help making changes or solving a specific problem. His background includes work with college campuses, first responders, and athletes, and he has experience in independent practice.
That variety shaped a flexible approach that balances being directive with being reflective. The aim is to give whatever the person needs in the moment. Dr.
Hale also draws on earlier experience as a trainer in college sports to support behavior change around fitness, injury recovery, and healthy routines. He uses that knowledge when clients want help with lifestyle goals tied to mental health. Sessions are offered in English and online through multiple formats.
Dr. Hale works from Kansas and uses methods that fit each person’s goals, whether those goals focus on anxiety, relationships, work stress, addiction, or mood issues.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting working relationship, so the person sets many of the goals and the therapist follows their lead. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical behavior therapy provides concrete coping skills for regulating emotions, handling distress, and improving interactions with others.The therapist treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust methods based on what helps the person reach their goals and feels comfortable to them. Decisions about focus and tools happen jointly over the first few sessions and are revisited as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video work lets for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic methods as in-person care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Kansas
- Languages
- English
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