About David
David Yoder is a Licensed Professional Counselor with six years of clinical experience. He centers sessions on a person-centered approach that keeps the client's needs and perspective in focus. David commonly helps people facing fear-based struggles such as anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and life transitions.
He prefers a straightforward style that aims to feel natural rather than forced. Sessions typically begin by listening to what matters most to the person and then shaping practical steps from there.
Background and approach
Many clients come with relationship strain, sleep problems, grief, or questions about identity and purpose, and he addresses these concerns directly. David combines client-centered work with tools drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when useful. He may also incorporate hypnotherapy or existential questions to help people examine meaning and motivation.
The mix of approaches is chosen together with the client, not imposed. He has worked a lot with issues that overlap, such as co-morbid mental health and substance concerns, codependency, attachment struggles, and impulsivity. This background helps him spot patterns and suggest small, actionable changes that add up over time.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. David practices in Missouri as an MO LPC and aims to help people build clearer goals and steadier coping skills.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
David often uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work is about being heard and accepted so people can sort out what matters to them; it suits concerns like anxiety, relationship stress, and life transitions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms such as worry, low mood, or sleep problems.He also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools when emotional regulation and impulsivity are part of the concern. DBT skills teach practical techniques for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and tolerating distress without making things worse. Together these approaches give options for both immediate coping and longer-term change, and the therapist will work with each person to decide which mix fits best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for more in-depth work and visual cues, phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth alternative, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options help people keep momentum and access therapy when travel, schedules, or energy are limited.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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