David Sprouse
Calm, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCPC, LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Hawaii, Oregon, Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
David Sprouse is a licensed counselor who centers his work on the person in front of him. He uses a straightforward, down-to-earth style to make conversations easier. He aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, trauma, depression, and parenting concerns.
David holds LCPC and LPC credentials and brings five years of licensed counseling experience to his practice in Virginia. In sessions he focuses on listening first, then building practical steps together.
Background and approach
He creates space for people to talk about what matters without fear of judgment. His approach is relaxed but professional to help clients open up and stay engaged. David has hands-on experience supporting those facing substance use issues, including work leading a medication-assisted treatment program in the past.
He also addresses sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, career stress, and caregiver strain. Those areas often show up alongside mood and relationship problems, and he helps clients sort priorities and set realistic goals. He draws from several therapy styles to match each situation.
Techniques include cognitive restructuring to shift unhelpful thoughts, emotion-focused work to improve how feelings are understood, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. Narrative ideas are used when someone wants to revise the stories that shape their life. Practical tools, steady listening, and clear next steps are the focus.
Clients work together with David to try new habits, solve immediate problems, and track progress over time. The aim is steady change that fits everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting concerns
David often blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in online work. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. EFT focuses on how emotions affect relationships and helps clients identify and respond to core feelings that drive interactions.He also uses Client-Centered Therapy to make sessions collaborative. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and meeting people where they are. Together the therapist and client decide which combination of methods fits the problem, goals, and personal preferences.r>
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These choices let people work around busy schedules, manage caregiving duties, or continue care when travel is difficult. The variety of options supports regular check-ins, short problem-solving messages, or longer video sessions depending on what each person needs.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Oregon, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to David
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point