About Ryan
Ryan Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He works with individuals facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, identity questions, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar. His style is direct and practical, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
He often starts by listening closely to what matters most to the client. Then he and the client set clear, short-term goals to focus the work.
Background and approach
He uses straightforward techniques to interrupt unhelpful patterns and build skills that help people respond differently to stress and difficult feelings. Ryan draws on several common therapy methods, including client-centered work that puts the person’s perspective first, cognitive behavioral techniques that address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical behavior skills for emotional regulation.
He also uses emotionally-focused work for relational concerns and the Gottman Method when couples-style communication is needed in sessions. His background includes 13 years in counseling, with early experience in anger management and long experience supporting parents and people in the LGBT community through identity and relationship questions. He welcomes conversations about adoption, attachment, body image, codependency, and addiction-related struggles.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled from Texas with options for people outside the United States. Ryan adapts his approach to the person in front of him and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s perspective and feelings, giving space for someone to tell their story and set the pace of work. It helps people who need acceptance and clarity about their goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. It teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and build new routines that support mood and functioning.
Dialectical behavior therapy, known as DBT, teaches specific skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when emotions feel intense or overwhelm daily life.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and try approaches that match what you need. Together you adjust methods and homework based on what helps most for your situation.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for conversations that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill coaching, or flexible communication between scheduled talks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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