About Ryan
Ryan Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and identity questions. He works with individuals facing addiction, grief, mood concerns, eating and intimacy-related issues, and other life challenges. Ryan aims to make the first step feel practical and manageable for worried parents and adults searching for support.
He uses straightforward, goal-focused work. Ryan often helps clients set clear targets and then practices skills to reach them.
Background and approach
That can mean trying thought exercises to shift unhelpful thinking or learning new ways to handle strong emotions. Sessions are conversational and task-oriented rather than long lectures. Ryan has 13 years of counseling experience and has spent substantial time supporting people in the LGBT community.
He began his career addressing anger management and now brings that background into work with families and parents facing everyday strain. His approach adapts to what each person needs rather than following a single script. Practical tools and easy-to-use exercises are a steady part of his work.
He uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to challenge thoughts and dialectical skills to manage emotion. He also draws on relationship-focused methods when couples or partners need help improving communication and connection. Ryan is open to discussing faith-based perspectives when that matters to a client, and he respects those who prefer a secular approach.
He invites people to describe what they hope to change and then builds a straightforward plan to move toward those goals.
How Ryan’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist provides an accepting space and helps you explore your feelings and priorities so you can decide what matters most and take steps forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Online CBT typically includes brief exercises and homework that teach ways to notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. In teletherapy this can mean practicing emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication techniques during sessions and then using short check-ins or messages between meetings.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, personal style, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past to pick the best methods. That collaboration makes it easier to try a method and adjust if it isn’t working.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you meet face-to-face while saving travel time. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins and skill coaching possible between scheduled meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy days and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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