About Ryan
Ryan O'Connell is a licensed clinical social worker with six years of experience helping people who are stressed, anxious, or facing big life changes. He practices in New York and works with adults dealing with grief, career shifts, and the confusion that comes with new life stages.
Ryan focuses on practical steps that reduce daily distress and help clients move toward clearer purpose and greater authenticity. He often meets people who function well outwardly but feel burdened inside.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client now, and then testing small changes that make daily life more manageable. Ryan guides conversations about identity, relationships, and past experiences that still affect the present. Ryan also helps people coping with ADHD, caregiving stress, body image worries, and addiction-related concerns.
He addresses challenges like isolation, guilt, and navigating end-of-life or hospice situations. The goal is measurable progress rather than vague reassurance. His style is collaborative and straightforward.
He aims to build a working relationship where clients feel heard and can try practical strategies between sessions. Progress is tracked and adjusted as goals shift. To start, Ryan asks clients to share what feels most urgent.
From there he and the client pick realistic steps and track how those changes affect day-to-day functioning. He uses a mix of reflective conversation and concrete tasks to support growth.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Ryan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and small behavior changes. One approach emphasizes teaching practical coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These skills include breathing and grounding practices, activity planning, and breaking problems into manageable steps to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on grief and identity work, helping people make sense of loss and reframe values so daily choices match what matters most now. This work uses guided conversation and real-world experiments to test new ways of relating to yourself and others.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. He will listen to your current concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. Together you can adjust the plan based on what helps most, mixing skill-building, reflective work, and practical homework tasks.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face to face when a focused session is helpful. Phone sessions are available when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, quick coaching between sessions, or ongoing tracking of progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while trying the approaches that feel most useful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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