About David
David Routly is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and anger. He speaks plain language and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and doable for people who are worn down by daily demands.
He helps individuals who are coping with big life changes, grief, intimacy concerns, sleep trouble, parenting strain, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT-related concerns.
Background and approach
He also works with people facing attention challenges, bipolar mood patterns, and compassion fatigue from caregiving or demanding jobs. In sessions he emphasizes listening first and then building practical skills. David uses client-centered conversation to understand where someone is now, and then draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
He also integrates dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation and EMDR if trauma processing is needed. Clients can expect goal-focused work that balances emotion and action. He aims to remove barriers to change and to support steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's readiness. David practises in Georgia as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their schedule and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities first and relies on empathic listening and open conversation to identify goals. It helps with stress, relationship strain, and decisions about life changes by clarifying what matters most to the client.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds specific skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It can help people reduce impulsive reactions and strengthen coping when feelings feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals and what feels comfortable. Clients can try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and practicing interactions, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text messaging is helpful for ongoing, brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and to use the format that helps someone engage most effectively.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English