Dale Potter
Supportive counselor for practical family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dale
Dale Potter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 18 years of practice. He uses a flexible, client-centered style that aims to meet each person where they are. He keeps conversations direct and practical so busy parents can follow along.
He focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, sleep trouble, and parenting concerns alongside mood and relationship issues. Dale draws from mindfulness techniques to help people stay grounded in stressful moments.
Background and approach
He also uses solution-focused methods that hone in on what works now, building small, practical steps. When trauma or past harm is part of the story, he applies trauma-focused approaches to reduce painful reactions and build safety. He has experience addressing a wide range of concerns including depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes.
Additional areas of attention include abandonment, communication problems, autism spectrum needs, and obsessive or compulsive symptoms. He describes his work as respectful and compassionate and adapts the pace to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to be collaborative.
Dale helps identify goals, then breaks them into manageable steps. He offers strategies you can try between sessions and checks what is or is not helping. For readers in Michigan, he practices under the license MI LPC 6401223916.
Conversations are in English and conducted through a range of online formats to fit family schedules.
Approaches that fit family life and online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s needs and preferences first. The therapist listens closely and adapts the session to your goals, which helps when parents need practical, understandable support. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve sleep and mood on hard days. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on identifying small, achievable steps that lead to quick, usable change and is useful for addressing parenting routines and daily stressors.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with you about your priorities and try different methods to see what feels most helpful. Goals are set together and adjusted along the way so the work stays relevant to your family’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video sessions recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions let you connect from anywhere, and live chat or text-based messaging provide ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counseling into school, work, and caregiving routines while keeping the focus on practical progress.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Dale
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point