David Evans
Practical, experienced support for everyday parenting stress
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
David Evans is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington. He offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. He also addresses substance use, intimacy or relationship concerns, parenting and family matters, and work-related stress.
David writes plainly and speaks directly, aiming to make the first step feel manageable for a worried parent. He brings 20 years of clinical experience from independent practice and community settings.
Background and approach
He has worked with people affected by trauma and abuse and with those facing career, sleep, or self-esteem problems. David blends practical skills with compassionate listening so people can make clear, realistic choices about what to change. In sessions he uses approaches rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Reality Therapy, along with mindfulness and motivational techniques.
That means he helps clients identify unhelpful thinking, try manageable behavior changes, and notice how small shifts affect mood and relationships. He adapts the plan to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all model. His style is warm and interactive.
David focuses on respect and sensitivity, avoiding labels that can feel limiting. He aims to help people find balance across daily routines, relationships, and parenting responsibilities. David holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential in Washington - WA LMHC LH 00011264.
He offers sessions in English and works with a broad range of life and mental health concerns while tailoring his approach to each person.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting support
David commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change mood and daily habits. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus in stressful moments.He treats these approaches as tools to try together rather than fixed rules. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. That process includes checking what helps and adjusting plans as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. These options let people fit care around parenting, work, and other responsibilities while keeping regular contact through shorter check-ins or full sessions as needed. The format is chosen to support access and flexibility so a person can focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point