About Bruce
Bruce Engelhard is a licensed social worker practicing in Utah. He holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings 15 years of clinical experience to his work. He blends outdoor experience with therapeutic care and offers a grounded, practical approach to common life struggles.
Bruce frames sessions around respect and collaboration. He listens closely and uses plain language. He helps people sort through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting pressures, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
How Bruce works
He also addresses addiction, ADHD, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and compassion fatigue. His background includes hospice and end-of-life counseling and attention to prejudice, discrimination, and seasonal affective disorder. Over his career he has worked with a wide range of presenting concerns and draws on multiple approaches when planning treatment.
The goal is to match methods to each person’s needs rather than forcing one single style. Bruce’s style is compassionate and interactive. Sessions aim to build practical skills and clearer ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings.
He helps people name their priorities and take small steps that lead to noticeable change. Many of his methods include mindfulness, acceptance strategies, attachment-focused ideas, cognitive-behavioral tools, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches. Bruce sees therapy as a collaborative process where the client guides the pace and focus of work.
Bruce lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Bruce works with
The areas below are the ones Bruce selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Utah |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build safer ways of relating and feeling seen.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bruce collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and life. He listens to preferences and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so the approach stays practical and useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make therapy more flexible for different schedules and needs, while keeping the focus on clear, usable tools and steady progress.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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