David Porter
Compassionate practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
David Porter is an Arizona licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with ten years of counseling experience. He offers practical, down-to-earth help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, relationship troubles, grief, and intimacy concerns. He also works with issues like self-esteem, anger, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Sessions are straightforward and focused on skills people can use right away. In the room he listens first, then helps clients set clear goals.
Background and approach
He mixes proven strategies to teach skills for coping, managing strong emotions, and changing unhelpful patterns. He often uses exercises to practice better communication and build trust between partners. He draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to shape treatment plans.
Those methods help with thoughts, values-based change, and emotional regulation. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas also guide how he builds a respectful, supportive relationship with each person. David has experience in addiction recovery, trauma work, and LGBTQ-affirming care.
He emphasizes collaboration and practical steps, not long lectures. He aims to make therapy something people can fit into daily life. Clients connect through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The process begins by answering a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions. Costs vary depending on location and the subscription model used.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small meaningful steps. It can help with anxiety, depression, and making life changes by teaching how to move toward values even with difficult thoughts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and new routines to reduce unhelpful thinking and improve day-to-day functioning, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.
David works with clients to find the best fit among these and other approaches. Figuring out the right method is a team effort that depends on a person’s goals, symptoms, and preferences. He checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to provide flexible options. These formats make it easier to fit conversations into busy schedules and to keep consistent contact between meetings. They also allow patients across Arizona to choose the style that helps them stay engaged with therapy.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point