David Markowitz
Seasoned counselor for practical family-focused help
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
David Markowitz is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 35 years of clinical experience based in Missouri. He draws on decades of practice to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, addiction, and life transitions. He speaks plainly and meets clients where they are to figure out realistic next steps together.
His style is warm and interactive. Conversations tend to be direct but compassionate, with an emphasis on practical ways to cope and change.
Background and approach
He avoids labeling and instead focuses on each person's situation and strengths. In sessions he uses a mix of methods tailored to the issue at hand. That can include cognitive-behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thoughts, emotionally-focused steps to repair relational patterns, and client-centered listening to clarify goals.
He also offers hypnotherapy when it fits a client's needs. David has worked with a wide range of concerns over his career, including trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and substance problems. He also addresses aging and geriatric matters, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and family of origin issues.
He conducts sessions in English and accepts international clients. Appointments are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on the therapist's availability.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on the person and their goals. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what he hears, and helps people identify what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs clear, empathetic support to sort priorities and make choices in parenting or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and short, doable assignments to change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT is often applied to anxiety, stress, and mood swings where concrete tools can reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and shift the emotional patterns that drive difficult interactions. It can be especially useful when communication breaks down or when restoring connection is a goal. In online sessions, the therapist will guide conversations that reveal these patterns and practice new ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences and then tailor methods to fit the client's needs. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact from home, phone sessions work when video isn't possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide timely support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum when life gets complicated.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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