About Ronald
Ronald Baptist is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. He has 32 years of clinical experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. He focuses on practical steps that lead to clearer thinking and steadier days.
He uses straightforward tools to address depression, panic, substance struggles, and problems with sleep or eating. Trauma and abuse are treated with care and structured methods. Ronald also supports people facing career strain, anger, and questions about self-worth.
How Ronald works
His work often begins with simple goals and small steps. He helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and try new ways of responding to old patterns. Sessions mix discussion, skill practice, and planning for what to do between meetings.
Across decades in Colorado, Ronald has worked with people affected by disasters and first responder stress, and with those managing adoption or family-of-origin concerns. He brings direct experience with abandonment, codependency, and communication problems to focused therapeutic work. Ronald draws from several approaches to match what a person needs.
He blends cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, trauma-focused methods, EMDR work, and Internal Family Systems ideas when appropriate. Clients are offered clear explanations and collaborative planning so therapy fits real life. To begin, he asks a few questions to understand background and goals.
That helps shape an initial plan with measurable steps and ongoing review of progress.
Ronald lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Ronald works with
The areas below are the ones Ronald selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ronald commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change behavior and mood. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding trauma responses and building safety, coping skills, and gradual processing to reduce distress.He also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma when appropriate. EMDR involves guided attention and memory processing to lessen the intensity of traumatic memories and the distress they cause in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to goals, and together decide what methods to try. That collaborative planning helps tailor work to a person's needs and preferences rather than assuming one method fits all.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for full-session work with visual connection, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, skill coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or other daily routines.
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