About Dakota
Dakota Seale is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas with ten years of clinical experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and relationship challenges. Dakota uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help people move forward from where they are now.
He believes clients bring important strengths to sessions. Dakota aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can name what’s hard and try different ways to cope.
How Dakota works
He often focuses on building skills for managing strong emotions and for improving communication with others. His background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as addictions, parenting stress, career transitions, and chronic health challenges. Dakota draws on several therapy approaches to match what each person needs in the moment and over time.
He speaks English and Spanish, and he sees people across Texas. Sessions use a mix of practical exercises, values-based goal setting, and attention to how relationships shape feelings. Dakota helps people weigh options and practice new habits rather than just talking about problems.
He also supports people processing grief, loss, and big life changes. Starting therapy with Dakota begins with a simple match process and scheduling. He uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
This structure is meant to let people keep steady support while they work toward clearer goals.
Dakota lists 20 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Dakota works with
The areas below are the ones Dakota selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate uncomfortable feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. It often helps with anxiety, mood, and coping with chronic problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Dakota will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest methods to try. That plan can change as work progresses so clients can find what actually helps them in practice rather than sticking to one fixed method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people read facial cues and do exercises that feel more like an in-person session. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching moments, and ongoing reminders between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counseling into busy days while keeping therapy focused on useful skills and real-world 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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