About David
David Whiteman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of experience. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening, reflecting, and guiding practical next steps. He aims to make the first step less intimidating for someone ready to try something different.
He works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, sleeping problems, and trauma and abuse. Relationship and family stress are also areas he addresses, along with career strain and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing bipolar symptoms and caregiving burden. David uses straightforward talk therapy that highlights a person's strengths. He helps people name patterns that get in the way and practices small changes that can make daily life easier.
Sessions tend to focus on realistic goals and tools a person can use between meetings. Over the years he has also worked with issues like attachment and abandonment, communication problems, codependency, body image, and adjustment after illness or disaster. He adapts his style to the needs a person brings and keeps the focus on practical coping.
People looking for remote options can speak with him from Indiana in English. He accepts international clients and offers a mix of session types to fit different routines. If someone wants steady support, he helps them build a plan and chart progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
David often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on identifying values and learning to accept difficult thoughts while still moving toward intentions; it can help with anxiety, grief, and living with ongoing challenges. CBT looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for depression, sleeping issues, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they watch what helps and adjust techniques so the plan matches the client's needs over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Indiana
- Languages
- English