About David
David Ramstad is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 22 years of clinical experience. He offers a direct but compassionate style and values the courage it takes to reach out for help. He focuses on listening closely and creating a space where people can speak honestly about what they are facing.
David keeps the work practical. Sessions often include talking through patterns, testing new perspectives, and finding small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
He uses clear feedback and straightforward suggestions while staying respectful and warm. He draws from several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. That mix helps him address issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship struggles, and major life changes.
He also supports people dealing with grief, parenting stress, career challenges, and attention-related concerns. David mentions lived experience as part of his viewpoint, which he uses to keep therapy grounded and relevant. His aim is to help clients develop useful skills and insights they can apply outside sessions.
He balances support with challenge to encourage meaningful change. Clients who want a collaborative process that is both honest and practical may find his approach a good fit. He works with people in Colorado and accepts international clients for online sessions.
The focus is on understanding goals and moving forward at a manageable pace.
Approaches that guide online work
David commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping clients find their own solutions, which can help with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life decisions. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns. DBT provides concrete coping strategies and emotion regulation tools that are useful for high-intensity emotions, impulsive behaviors, and relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each client about their goals and preferences, and then recommend strategies that fit those needs. Sessions are collaborative, with room to adjust methods as progress is made and circumstances change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are helpful when visual cues and face-to-face conversation matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter exchanges or for people who prefer writing to talking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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