Ian Guthrie
Practical counseling for parenting and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ian
Ian Guthrie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. He brings seven years of formal counseling experience and many more years of work in addiction and mental health. He speaks English and accepts clients from outside the United States.
His approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping parents and individuals who are navigating stress, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Ian bases his work in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, while also drawing on motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying patterns that make life harder and testing small changes that can make a difference. He uses clear goals and step-by-step strategies rather than vague theory. Common topics he addresses include anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, anger, and self-esteem.
He also works with family-related concerns and parenting issues, including fatherhood challenges and caregiver stress. Ian pays attention to how past attachment and abandonment experiences shape current relationships. In session, he listens first and then helps shape a plan.
He offers tools from mindfulness and existential thinking when they fit a person’s goals. The work aims to build coping skills, increase motivation, and make daily life more manageable. Practicalities are kept simple.
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Fees vary with location and the subscription model in use, and scheduling follows the standard match-and-book process.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience first. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s lead to clarify goals and values. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to talk through parenting stress or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical and action-oriented, often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with daily parenting demands. Sessions include homework and specific skills to practice between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Over time techniques can be adjusted if something isn’t helping, so the process stays flexible and centered on the client’s needs.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging give more flexible ways to keep momentum between meetings. These formats help people fit therapy into busy family schedules and different time zones.
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
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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