About David
David Hicks is a licensed clinical social worker who offers straightforward, compassionate help for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or big life changes. He practices in Kentucky and draws on practical methods to help people manage everyday struggles and improve relationships. He blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and habits.
He also uses solution-focused strategies to set small, achievable steps toward change. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Many clients seek help for relationship strain, communication problems, or the stress of transitions. He also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, codependency, substance problems, and persistent feelings of emptiness or shame. He listens for what matters to each person and tailors the pace of work accordingly.
David brings ten years of practice experience to clinical work in Kentucky. He explains clinical concepts plainly and helps people try specific tools, then checks what works and what needs adjusting. The approach is practical and rooted in real-life concerns rather than jargon.
People meet with him by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. He uses those options to make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to support different communication styles.
How these approaches work online
David uses client-centered work to prioritize each person's concerns and goals, focusing first on listening and understanding what matters most. That approach helps shape later work so therapy stays relevant to daily life.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, involves noticing patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to anxiety or low mood and practicing alternative habits. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and managing unhelpful reactions to change.
Solution-focused techniques emphasize small, practical steps. Sessions often identify one or two achievable goals and try brief experiments between meetings to build momentum and confidence.
Choosing the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through options, try methods that match the client's needs and preferences, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The aim is to find a workable path rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and deeper work, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact and reminders. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into normal routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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