Damon Bryan
Calm, practical help for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Damon
Damon Bryan is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 21 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, depressed, grieving, or facing relationship and family problems. He also addresses trauma, addiction, parenting concerns, ADHD, and other life changes.
Sessions are offered in English from his Utah practice. Damon aims to make the room feel open and nonjudgmental so people can speak honestly about tough topics.
Background and approach
He works with clients to set clear goals and to choose practical steps that match those goals. He often combines direct skill teaching with time to talk through memories and feelings. His training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, the Gottman Method for relationships, and mindfulness-based techniques.
He has used these methods across many settings over two decades and adapts them to each person’s situation. He emphasizes collaboration and finding what fits best for the individual. Damon has particular experience supporting people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and substance use problems.
He also works with those facing domestic violence, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues. He brings steady, practical guidance when complicated family history or trauma are part of the picture. Therapy with Damon focuses on building skills, understanding patterns, and making manageable changes.
He encourages honest conversation, clear goals, and ongoing adjustment of the plan as progress is made.
How Damon’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and everyday coping skills.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, supports processing traumatic memories by combining bilateral stimulation with guided recall. It is often used for trauma, abuse, and intense distress tied to past events.
Damon emphasizes that the right approach is discovered together. He discusses goals, preferences, and past experiences, then recommends strategies and adjusts them as therapy unfolds. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what the person needs and tolerates.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video and phone let people speak in real time, while live chat and messaging can fit around busy days or provide brief check-ins. These options help reduce travel time and let people connect from home or work when that fits their schedule.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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