About Ryan
Ryan Gleason is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and depression. He has a decade of experience supporting clients through hard moments and major life changes. He believes people bring strengths to therapy that can help them move forward.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and he recognizes the courage it takes to begin. Ryan uses straightforward, practical conversations to help people gain clarity and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on small, doable steps between meetings. He listens for patterns that keep problems coming back and helps craft ways to change those patterns. In therapy he emphasizes collaboration.
He works with each person to identify goals and then tries methods that match those goals. When something isn’t working, he adjusts the approach so progress can continue. Over ten years of practice have included work with mood concerns, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, anger, addictions, and self-esteem difficulties.
That range helps him pull from different ways of working to meet each person’s situation. He aims for clear explanations and practical strategies rather than jargon. Ryan offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People can choose the format that fits their schedule and comfort. He expects therapy to be a collaborative partnership focused on realistic change.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Ryan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, then experiments with new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Another approach emphasizes building coping skills and stress management tools that can ease reactions to trauma and daily pressures. These methods aim to teach skills you can use between sessions to manage mood and respond differently to triggers.Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative process guides which techniques are tried and how they are adapted over time.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction while staying at home or another convenient place. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and flexibility for those with busy schedules. These options make it possible to fit therapeutic work into daily life and to continue care across different circumstances.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English