About Skip
Rev. Skip Beyer is a licensed mental health counselor with 19 years of experience. He blends practical talk therapy with a pastoral perspective when clients want faith included.
He focuses on anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, and struggles with self-esteem. He works with people who are coping with major life changes and grief. He begins by listening carefully to each person’s story.
Sessions aim to identify strengths and build clear, achievable steps.
Background and approach
He uses familiar tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness and narrative work are part of his approach when they fit a person's needs. That means paying attention to the present moment and looking at personal stories to find new meaning and options.
He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice long-standing patterns that affect current life. Rev. Beyer offers a mix of clinical and faith-informed counseling, and he uses scripture only when a client requests it.
He can support people dealing with trauma, grief, relationship struggles, anger, sleep trouble, and stress-related concerns. He is based in Indiana and holds the LMHC credential, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Sessions are adapted to each person's pace and goals, and he emphasizes practical steps toward change.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Rev. Beyer uses Client-Centered Therapy to start. That means the therapist listens without judgment and follows the person's goals. It helps when someone needs someone to hear their story and find their own next steps.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. CBT involves identifying thinking traps, testing those thoughts, and practicing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps match methods to what actually helps each person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video suits longer conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins and flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to have regular contact and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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