About Jay
Jay Sawyers is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with over two decades of experience. He helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addiction, and the stresses of parenting and career change. Jay focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day, and he meets people where they are without judgment.
Jay keeps sessions centered on the person's needs and goals. He uses clear conversation and doable exercises rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Clients can expect direct feedback, help sorting priorities, and strategies to manage strong emotions and recurring patterns. His approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral work and trauma-focused care. He also draws on mindfulness practices to help people notice unhelpful habits and respond differently.
For relationship concerns he uses principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and problem-solving. Jay has worked in counseling for 22 years, building experience with a wide range of challenges. He tailors plans to each person's situation, whether someone needs short-term coaching or longer-term therapy.
Jay aims to make progress feel concrete and measurable. People who seek him out often want straightforward guidance and tools that fit a busy life. He supports clients who want to rebuild trust, manage mood swings, reduce stress, or find more satisfaction at home and work.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on active listening and understanding the person's experience. It helps when someone needs a calm space to talk and to explore what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. From there they pick or combine methods so sessions stay practical and aligned with the person's needs.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day or to follow up between sessions. These options improve flexibility and make it easier to keep momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English