About David
David Kurfman is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and mood swings. He guides people dealing with grief, trauma, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and challenges around self-esteem. With 35 years of experience, he speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person.
He aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. He uses conversation to identify patterns that cause distress and to build steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, manageable changes that add up over time. The therapist works from Indiana and offers services in English. David uses several ways of working depending on the issue.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and pace. Psychodynamic ideas can be used to look at long-standing patterns that repeat in relationships.
People who contact him can expect steady pacing and clear options for coping with life shifts. He also supports concerns such as attention challenges, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue. Adoption, foster care, forgiveness, and feelings of emptiness are additional areas he addresses.
His background includes long clinical practice across many settings over three decades. He holds the credential Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. Those credentials are listed as IN LMHC and TN LPC.
He accepts international clients for online care and uses multiple session formats.
How therapy approaches guide remote care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and pace. It involves listening closely and reflecting what a person says so they feel heard and can set their own direction. This approach helps when someone needs support to sort values, choices, and reactions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to practice different behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person’s life and concerns.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls provide a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and written reflections. These formats make it easier to keep continuity and try new coping strategies between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Tennessee
- Languages
- English