About Chad
Chad Starrak is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. He uses straight talk and practical steps to help people move from feeling stuck to making steady progress. Many people come for help with panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, chronic pain, or the heavy fatigue of caregiving.
In sessions Chad centers the person's experience. He listens first, then helps name patterns and try simple skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related memories. Chad also brings Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices into sessions. Those tools aim to reduce emotional overwhelm and improve focus.
Clients often work on managing anger, reducing avoidance, and coping with isolation using these strategies. He trained and practices in Texas and holds the LCSW credential, which is listed as TX LCSW. Chad has five years of clinical experience working with people who face complex concerns like dissociation, codependency, and panic disorder.
Therapy sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Chad helps people set small, achievable steps and checks in on what’s working. The approach balances practical techniques with attention to how past experiences shape current struggles.
Many reach out because they want clearer direction and less reactivity. Chad aims to make change feel possible by breaking problems into manageable parts and building skills that fit each person’s life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The approach helps people feel heard and make decisions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. CBT is often useful for anxiety, panic, and obsessive thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Chad will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will suggest approaches that fit. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video calls let you talk face-to-face; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style support, and when writing out thoughts feels clearer. These options aim to make it easier to practice strategies between meetings and keep momentum toward your goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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