About Ian
Ian Guthrie is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with seven years of clinical experience. He uses straightforward, practical work to help people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship strain. He writes and talks in plain terms, and aims to build steps clients can try between sessions.
Ian draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. He blends that with Motivational Interviewing to support motivation and with Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's goals.
Background and approach
This mix lets him tailor plans for stress, grief, self-esteem, parenting concerns, and issues around intimacy. Clients may bring substance use problems, anger, career uncertainty, or questions about attachment and abandonment. He also works with people coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and major life changes.
Ian pays attention to what each person values and helps them set realistic next steps. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Conversations often include practical exercises, brief behavioral tasks, and check-ins on progress.
He encourages clear communication and problem-solving around family problems, communication breakdowns, and commitment worries. Ian accepts international clients and conducts work in English. He offers several online formats so people can find what fits their day-to-day life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire links someone to scheduling and the therapy format that suits them.
Approach-focused online counseling and flexible formats
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's needs and goals at the center of sessions. The therapist listens without judgment and helps shape sessions around what matters most to the client, which can be useful for relationship concerns, parenting stress, and self-esteem work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, addiction-related patterns, and practical coping skills by breaking problems into concrete steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, adjusting techniques as progress is tracked. This shared planning helps tailor sessions to address issues like grief, trauma, or career transitions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video works well for more in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins and daily support easier to arrange. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and to fit into varied routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English