About David
David Khalatyan is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma. He focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. He also supports people wrestling with relationship struggles and issues tied to identity and sexual orientation.
His sessions are collaborative and client-centered. He listens for patterns that cause pain and helps clients try small, doable changes. Many conversations focus on improving communication, setting boundaries, and reducing the everyday overwhelm that makes life harder.
Background and approach
David has four years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns. He is familiar with challenges such as abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and the effects of domestic violence or family-of-origin problems. He also offers support around adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, and medical-related distress including cancer.
He draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide treatment choices. In practice this means combining straightforward tools with attention to each person’s story. Progress is measured in concrete steps and clearer coping strategies rather than jargon.
Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Clients sign up through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Evidence-Based Care and Online Options
David uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions, focusing on approaches that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common approach involves skills-based work that teaches coping strategies for anxiety and stress, like breathing exercises, grounding, and step-by-step behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. Another approach emphasizes trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult memories, recognize how past experiences shape current reactions, and build safer ways of relating to themselves and others.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and preferences together to decide what to try first. If one method doesn’t fit, adjustments are made so the plan matches the person’s needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls work well for deeper conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow quick, ongoing support between longer sessions and can fit into busy days. These options help people access therapy without major travel and let them pick the way of communicating that feels most practical.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English