About William
William (Bill) Golden is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. He speaks plain language and aims to make first steps feel doable for someone who may be nervous about reaching out. He offers a calm, steady presence and encourages honesty about thoughts and feelings.
Bill creates a space where people can talk without judgment. He listens for patterns that cause trouble and helps people try small, practical changes.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on daily problems, coping skills, and how to handle relationships and work stress. With 14 years of experience, Bill has worked with a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. He also supports people facing parenting stresses, sleep and eating difficulties, and career transitions.
He pays attention to how past experiences shape current behavior and choices. Bill uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs. He draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person.
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at life stories and underlying patterns. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online. Insurance or cost details vary by location and plan, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
How William blends approaches online
Client-centered work puts the person's priorities first. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, helping them set goals and pace the work. This approach helps when someone needs support to clarify what they want to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build different habits, which can help with anxiety, stress, and sleep or eating problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist discusses options together and adjusts methods based on the client's goals and preferences. That collaborative planning means sessions change over time as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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