About Henry
Henry "Jay" Swedlaw is a licensed counselor with two decades of clinical experience. He holds LPCC and LCMHC credentials and works from Texas to support people facing complicated feelings and life changes. Jay writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. He also supports concerns around identity, intimacy, and relationship difficulties. Topics such as grief, trauma, body image, and career stress are part of his practice.
Background and approach
Jay uses practical tools drawn from approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He mixes mindfulness practices and narrative work to help people notice patterns and tell different stories about themselves. Sessions focus on real steps someone can try between meetings.
Clients can expect a calm, direct style that balances compassion with clear feedback. Jay aims to make things understandable and doable, not overwhelming. He partners with each person to set small goals that match their life and values.
His work also addresses less talked-about areas such as kink and alternative sexual cultures, gender dysphoria, HIV/AIDS concerns, and issues around money or career. Jay tends to prioritize safety, respect, and practical problem solving while helping people build lasting coping skills.
How his approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values, even when hard feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide whether to try ACT, CBT, mindfulness techniques, or a mix of methods and adjust the plan over time based on feedback.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits quick check-ins or tools between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, or busy family life while keeping focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Texas, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, New Hampshire, California
- Languages
- English