David Finucane
Practical plans for stress and mood
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
David Finucane is a licensed mental health counselor who uses straightforward, goal-focused therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. He works from practical methods that aim to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. David speaks plainly in sessions and encourages clients to use their strengths as they make changes.
David is a Florida licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - and brings six years of experience to his work.
Background and approach
He has supported people dealing with anger, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, and grief. He also addresses relationship and family concerns, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and workplace stress. His approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with client-centered listening and elements of cognitive behavioral therapy.
That means clients learn skills for handling unhelpful thoughts, making values-based choices, and practicing new behaviors between sessions. Sessions are practical and focused on what works in day-to-day life. David aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
He helps clients set clear goals and build step-by-step plans to meet those goals. He encourages small, sustainable changes rather than quick fixes. People who reach out can expect direct feedback, measurable tools, and support for translating insights into action.
David uses plain language and concrete exercises so clients can use what they learn right away. His style fits people who want clear guidance and practical strategies.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that line up with their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, low mood, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. It offers clear exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals so people feel heard and can make their own choices.Finding the right mix of these approaches is part of the early work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the person’s needs in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits: it lets people meet from home by video calls or phone, and also supports live chat and text-based messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing support. This flexibility helps fit therapy into busy schedules and lets clients use the communication style that works best for them. Licensed professionals can deliver structured exercises, feedback, and planning through these remote formats so progress continues between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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