About Ronald
Ronald Baptist is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 32 years of clinical experience. He uses practical therapy methods to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and major life changes. He focuses on clear communication and building everyday coping skills.
Sessions often involve looking at patterns that keep problems going and then trying small, doable changes. Ronald draws on approaches that include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and trauma-focused care.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with relationship strain, workplace stress, sleep and eating issues, or struggles with self-esteem and purpose. He also has experience with first responder concerns, adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, and forgiveness work. Those topics are woven into sessions at a pace that fits each person.
Ronald favors a straightforward, collaborative style. He listens, offers feedback, and helps people build tools they can use between meetings. EMDR and Internal Family Systems are options when trauma processing or deeper internal work is needed.
People meet by video, phone, live chat, or messaging to fit their schedules. Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire.
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT is a hands-on approach that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions teach practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress, and clients practice techniques between meetings.DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. It is useful when strong emotions, anger, or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life.
EMDR is a method used to process traumatic memories so they have less emotional charge. It can help people who have persistent distress linked to past events and who want a focused path for trauma work.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as progress is made and priorities change.
Online formats - video, phone, live chat, and text messaging - offer flexibility for different needs. Video lets therapists and clients use visual cues and work through structured exercises. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option for longer conversations. Live chat or text works well for shorter check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers written check-ins instead of a call.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English