Dr. David Posipanka
Therapist who combines practical skills with listening
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
Dr. David Posipanka uses a straightforward, person-centered approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, parenting challenges, and depression. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and brings 30 years of clinical experience to sessions.
He aims to make conversations easy to follow and practical for daily life. Many people come for help when life feels overwhelming or when a behavior pattern keeps repeating. In sessions he focuses on listening first and then finding tools that fit each person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practice, and motivational interviewing are among the methods he draws on. These approaches are used to change unhelpful thoughts, build new habits, and strengthen motivation to stick with changes. Dr.
Posipanka encourages honest talk about hard feelings without judgment. He helps people sort through guilt, shame, impulsivity, and relationship tensions in clear, manageable steps. He also addresses issues related to aging, chronic illness, attachment concerns, and effects of separation or loss.
Over three decades of work in Pennsylvania have shaped his practical style. He aims to balance problem-solving with attention to values and meaning. That combination can help when someone is facing life changes or trying to recover from substance problems.
Sessions can include brief skill-building, guided reflection, and plans for what to try between meetings. The goal is steady progress that fits into everyday life rather than quick fixes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Dr. Posipanka commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in his work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced through structured exercises and homework between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes active listening and understanding, helping people feel heard while they explore difficult emotions and make choices that match their values.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then he and the client decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed in ongoing sessions.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions offer flexibility when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins and real-time coaching between meetings. These options help people keep consistency while working on stress, anxiety, parenting problems, or recovery goals.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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