About Damon
Damon Bryan is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Utah who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and problems with relationships and parenting. He draws on two decades of clinical work to guide people through addiction, grief, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem struggles. He keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
He and each client set clear goals together. Conversations focus on what is getting in the way day to day and on small steps that produce change.
Background and approach
Damon uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. He adapts methods to fit a person's needs rather than sticking strictly to one model. This helps with symptoms like panic, low mood, and trauma memories.
He emphasizes a respectful, collaborative working relationship. Clients are invited to share what works and what does not, and plans are adjusted as therapy progresses. Damon also brings experience addressing adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and substance use.
Sessions may cover coping strategies, communication skills, emotional regulation, and processing difficult memories. Damon encourages steady progress and realistic goals. He aims to empower people to handle life changes and rebuild connection with themselves and others.
How specific approaches translate to online work
CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. Online CBT sessions often include homework, short skills practice, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change unhelpful habits.DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills. In remote sessions these tools are practiced in conversation, with phone or messaging check-ins to support skill use between appointments. DBT can be useful for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal interactions.
EMDR helps people process traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided bilateral stimulation. In online work this can involve guided eye movements or other bilateral exercises adapted for video or phone formats to reduce the intensity of distressing memories.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods that seem promising, and adjust if something is not helpful. That collaborative planning helps match techniques to what a person actually needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can work when video is not possible or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates or get brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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