About Ryan
Ryan Urzen is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. He emphasizes practical steps that make day-to-day life easier and more manageable for people feeling overwhelmed. He uses clear, straightforward conversation to help clients identify what matters to them.
Sessions focus on small, concrete changes like communication habits, coping tools, and ways to reduce isolation. Ryan frames work around values and goals rather than labels or tests.
Background and approach
Ryan brings ten years of experience as a Florida LMHC. He has worked with people dealing with trauma, depression, relationship challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue. He also supports clients facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, and issues connected to military or first responder experiences.
His style blends evidence-based methods with a person-centered outlook. Techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness are used alongside acceptance and commitment ideas and attachment-informed perspectives. The emphasis is on skills you can practice between sessions.
Ryan pays attention to how life roles and identity affect wellbeing. He offers coaching-style support for career and life-purpose questions and practical help for money worries, fatherhood concerns, and midlife shifts. Sessions aim to help people reconnect with what matters and move forward with clearer steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ryan commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in his online work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking action toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear; it can help with anxiety, stress, and life transitions. CBT looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce unhelpful patterns like avoidance or rumination; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ryan will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what they want to change. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone calls are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging can fit short check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when scheduling a full call is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person care.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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