About Dakota
Dakota Seale is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. He works with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, phobias, and other stress-related concerns. Dakota aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can speak honestly about what’s happening in their lives.
He believes clients are the experts in their own stories and partners with them to identify workable steps forward. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to practical skills that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Dakota often blends evidence-informed approaches so people learn new ways to respond to difficult thoughts and emotions. His background includes a decade of helping adults manage life changes, grief, addiction concerns, anger, relationship struggles, and work-related stress. That experience guides a steady, straightforward style that values clear goals and steady progress.
Dakota also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic health issues, and attachment concerns. Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. He offers weekday and evening times to accommodate different schedules and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Parents reading this will find an approach that focuses on practical coping strategies and clearer communication. Dakota helps people break overwhelming problems into manageable steps and builds on strengths the client already has.
How Dakota’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, avoidance, and getting unstuck from old patterns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing alternatives. It often helps with phobias, depression, and stress by teaching concrete coping skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation and distress tolerance strategies for overwhelming feelings and relationship problems. It can be helpful when strong emotions make day-to-day life harder.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Dakota will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. The first sessions focus on priorities so therapy stays practical and goal-directed.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face when possible, phone sessions work well with lower bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit sessions into a busy week and make it easier to maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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