About David
David Sprouse is a licensed counselor with five years of counseling-focused experience and a longer background in healthcare. He holds LCPC and LPC credentials and works from a straightforward, approachable style. He aims to help people lower stress, manage anxiety, and cope with addiction and trauma.
He uses plain talk in sessions so people can say what they mean. He creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
His manner is casual but professional to help people relax and be honest about hard topics. David supports people coping with relationship struggles, depression, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and career or caregiving stress. He also focuses on issues such as body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and forgiveness.
He draws on several therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. In practical work he blends client-centered techniques with cognitive behavioral tools and emotionally-focused ideas. That mix helps people change difficult thoughts, practice new behaviors, and repair emotional connection where it has been damaged.
Sessions often include goal-setting and small steps to try between meetings. He offers phone, video, chat, and text formats so therapy can fit into a busy life. People who choose therapy with him begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits their timing.
He works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship so people can talk through what matters most. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to name feelings and figure out priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and uses practical exercises to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-focused ideas focus on emotions and connection and can help people work through hurt, repair trust, and manage strong feelings.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and will suggest which methods may help most. Plans can be adjusted over time so the work fits what’s actually helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people keep face-to-face interaction when it matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging make it easier to stay connected between longer sessions and to fit support into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Oregon, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia
- Languages
- English