About David
David Porter is an independently licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Arizona. He has ten years of experience helping people who struggle with anxiety, stress, addiction, depression, trauma, and grief. He also supports clients facing relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, and concerns related to identity and LGBT matters.
He uses straightforward, skills-based work in sessions. That can include looking at thoughts and behaviors, learning new coping tools, and practicing small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-focused so clients leave with things to try between sessions. David blends several common approaches to suit each person’s needs. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment methods to clarify values and build flexible action, and dialectical strategies for emotion regulation.
Attachment-informed work helps when past relationships shape current patterns. Sessions often focus on specific problems like managing panic, reducing substance-related harms, improving communication, or coping with life changes. David aims to help people notice patterns and try different responses until something works better for them.
He describes his role as collaborative - listening, offering practical strategies, and adjusting the plan as progress is made. Anyone in Arizona who prefers clear steps and supportive guidance may find this approach helpful.
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when anxiety or difficult thoughts show up. Online sessions can focus on short, practical exercises and homework that fit into daily routines. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches concrete strategies to test and change unhelpful thinking. That approach adapts well to video or phone sessions where worksheets and behavioral experiments can be reviewed together. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication. In sessions this can mean practicing new ways of relating and noticing patterns in real time.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick approaches that match their goals, comfort level, and practical needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on how the client responds and what they want to achieve.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls let people speak face to face and use shared materials, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging helps with day-to-day coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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