About David
David Khalatyan is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in California who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship worries. He also offers support around trauma and LGBT issues, and addresses specific concerns such as phobias, social anxiety, and communication struggles. He keeps sessions straightforward and client-centered.
He listens first, then helps people identify small, practical steps to reduce distress. Sessions focus on real-life problems like work stress, difficult conversations, or coping after a painful event.
Background and approach
With four years of clinical experience, he uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide recovery and growth. That means he leans on approaches shown to help with anxiety, mood, and trauma symptoms while tailoring methods to each person’s needs. David pays attention to family of origin issues, attachment concerns, and patterns such as codependency or control issues.
He also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, caregiver stress, chronic illness like cancer, and the aftermath of domestic violence. Sessions are offered in English and available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. He works collaboratively to set goals and track progress, helping people build skills that fit their daily life.
Evidence-informed methods for online care
David uses practical, evidence-based techniques to address anxiety, trauma, and relationship patterns. One common approach focuses on skills for reducing anxiety and phobic responses through gradual exposure and step-by-step practice; this helps people face feared situations in manageable ways and build confidence. Another approach emphasizes trauma-informed strategies that help people process painful memories and learn coping tools to reduce intrusive symptoms and emotional overwhelm.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. Together they review what helps, adjust strategies, and set short-term targets so progress is easier to see and maintain.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversation and skill practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited, and texting or live chat can support quick check-ins and brief coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and other routines while keeping focus on steady, practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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