About Benjamin
Benjamin Savant is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. He also supports clients facing grief, trauma, addiction concerns, intimacy challenges, parenting stress, and mood conditions. Benjamin practices in Louisiana and brings 11 years of experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
He prefers straightforward work in sessions. He listens first, then helps clients define the problems they want to change.
Background and approach
Together they set short- and long-term goals and track progress week to week. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used between meetings. Benjamin adapts his approach to fit each person.
He draws on client-centered methods to prioritize each person’s concerns and uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. He also applies solution-focused strategies to build quick, usable changes when people need immediate relief. People can expect a calm, structured process that balances talking things through with concrete exercises.
Benjamin emphasizes present-day choices while acknowledging how past events matter. He aims to help clients develop clearer perspectives and healthier ways of coping. His background includes work with adolescents and adults across a range of clinical settings.
That varied experience informs how he tailors sessions to individual needs and life circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches for online change
Benjamin combines client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people make practical changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting working relationship so clients feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches specific skills to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms.He also uses solution-focused therapy to identify small, achievable steps that move people toward their goals. That approach is useful when someone wants quick, concrete changes or a focused plan for a particular problem. Together, these approaches give a balance of support, skill-building, and short-term problem solving.
Finding the right mix of methods is collaborative. The therapist and client review goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Sessions are shaped around the client's needs, preferences, and pace so changes fit into daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief updates or ongoing reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, and other obligations while keeping progress consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English