About Ryan
Ryan Suhr is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) practicing in Nebraska. He brings ten years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and other life challenges. He frames therapy around clients' goals and practical steps toward change.
Ryan draws on undergraduate and graduate study in philosophy, psychology, religion, and linguistics to shape his work. He focuses on what matters to each person and helps them make sense of difficult moments.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear, direct conversation and tools that can be used between meetings. His style is client-centered and down-to-earth. He listens for values and meaning, then collaborates on realistic next steps.
For people facing trauma, grief, relationship strain, or identity questions, he uses approaches that address patterns and daily choices. Ryan often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. He also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current ones.
Motivational interviewing is used when clients want to change habits but feel stuck. Many people come to him with concerns about parenting, intimacy, self-esteem, career transitions, ADHD, or compassion fatigue. He also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, domestic violence aftermath, and complex co-occurring problems.
His work aims to help people move toward clearer goals and better functioning in everyday life.
Approaches that translate to online care
Ryan often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building a collaborative relationship. This approach helps when someone needs a listening space and practical support to clarify goals and values.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, depression, and habit change because it includes clear exercises and homework to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and life context, and together they will try approaches that fit. That collaborative process helps shape the plan rather than assuming one method up front.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Washington
- Languages
- English
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