About William
William Lyons is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with three decades of experience in behavioral health. He focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship concerns. He speaks English and offers sessions that can work around busy schedules, including weekend appointment times.
He frames therapy as a collaborative process and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions typically involve practical conversation about current struggles and developing concrete skills to manage symptoms.
Background and approach
He avoids pathologizing language and aims to help people find better ways to handle what feels overwhelming. William draws on client-centered work to create a respectful, listening space where goals come from the client. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are added when people need tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. His background includes long experience in addiction counseling and work with trauma-related issues, which informs how he approaches relapse risk, grief, and emotional injuries. That history also shapes how he talks about coping and recovery in day-to-day life.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules. William welcomes international clients and structures care to fit practical constraints like work hours and family commitments.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship. In practice this means sessions start with the client’s priorities and move at a pace the client sets, which helps when addressing anxiety or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises between meetings to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can reduce stress and social anxiety.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, provides concrete skills for emotion regulation and coping with distress. Those skills are useful for people dealing with intense emotions, impulsivity, or addiction triggers and can be taught effectively through video or message-based contacts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and role-play exercises. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, written skill coaching, and ongoing support between live sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistent contact and carry new skills into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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