Dr. David Wilcox
Calm, experienced guidance for family concerns
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About David
Dr. David Wilcox has practiced professional counseling since 1991. He is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - with more than three decades of clinical experience.
He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting, and depression. He uses straightforward language and practical strategies so people understand what happens in sessions. He often works with people affected by trauma and helps family members understand trauma dynamics.
He also addresses substance misuse when it has become a coping method for intrusive thoughts and painful feelings.
Background and approach
His approach looks at the whole person - biological, psychological, social, and spiritual - though not every area is addressed at once. Therapy sessions commonly use methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. These tools are used to change unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, set achievable goals, and strengthen motivation for change.
He draws from the stage of change model when readiness and behavior shifts are central to the work. Dr. Wilcox emphasizes clear communication and practical steps.
He helps clients and their families talk through patterns, set realistic next steps, and practice new skills between meetings. Many find this direct, steady style useful when managing stressors or repairing strained relationships. He works from Florida and offers services in English.
His long experience guides treatment planning and helps people move toward more manageable daily routines and clearer relationships.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting concerns
Dr. Wilcox commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in his online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily routines. Motivational interviewing focuses on building a person’s own reasons to change, useful when substance misuse or ambivalence about change is present.He treats finding the right approach as a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works and what the client finds helpful.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy family schedules and to stay connected from different locations. The variety of formats also lets people use tools that suit how they process conversations and practice skills between sessions.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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