About Roian
Roian Baalman is a Licensed Professional Counselor who blends practical strategies with a warm, direct style. She uses clear tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and mood concerns. Roian writes plainly and focuses on small, doable steps a person can use right away.
She draws on six years of clinical work that includes behavioral health and substance use settings. That background informs how she addresses grief, parenting strain, relationship problems, and issues like ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Roian also supports people facing abandonment, attachment struggles, dissociation, and long-term health challenges. Sessions are collaborative. She helps a person set realistic goals and chooses methods that match those goals.
Roian blends approaches such as acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive work to change unhelpful thinking, and attachment-focused conversations to improve connection and safety. Her earlier decade in human services shaped how she sees daily life stressors and caregiving demands. That experience often shows up when helping people with caregiver stress, chronic illness, or complicated bereavement.
Roian also has experience with substance use care and medicated-assisted-treatment in clinical settings. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named and worked through. Roian encourages small acts of courage and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
If someone is looking for grounded guidance and practical tools, she offers a clear, human approach.
Using focused approaches in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and focus on actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life changes make decisions hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It can help with anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and compulsive behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present-day connection and trust and then works to repair and strengthen ways of relating to others.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life context and then shape a plan together. That collaborative process means methods can shift over time if different tools are needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text are useful for brief updates, homework, or when a written check-in fits into a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Texas
- Languages
- English