About David
David Porter is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Arizona with ten years of counseling experience. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship struggles, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. He offers straightforward, practical help.
Sessions focus on skills that people can use between meetings. He works with people on grief, anger, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD related concerns. His approach blends several well-known methods.
How David works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy are woven together to teach coping tools and new ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas shape how he attends to connection and safety in sessions. David has particular experience supporting people in addiction recovery and those healing from trauma and PTSD.
He also provides LGBT-affirming care and assists professionals with work-related stress and leadership challenges. He aims to help people rebuild communication, trust, and emotional connection when relationships feel strained. People who choose him can expect a collaborative style.
He listens for strengths, sets clear goals, and practices real skills in session. Starting therapy is described as a step toward clearer thinking and more manageable days.
David lists 14 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)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What David works with
The areas below are the ones David selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that fit their values. Online sessions can teach short practices and homework that fit into busy days. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through clear exercises and skills. This approach works well over video or text because tools can be practiced between meetings and reviewed remotely. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection shapes current relationships and helps people build safer ways of relating; discussion and reflection about relational patterns can be effective in remote sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that seem likely to help. Clients and the therapist make adjustments as they learn what feels most useful and fits the client’s life.
Online care offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls are suited to in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can provide shorter check-ins, written reminders of skills, and support between longer sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other routines while working with a licensed professional.
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