About David
David Whiteman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings 26 years of experience to therapy. He focuses on practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, sleep problems, and career concerns. David uses clear language and steady support to help people start making changes that matter.
David believes people already carry strengths that can help them move forward. In sessions he listens, reflects, and helps clients notice patterns that hold them back.
Background and approach
He uses methods that encourage action and small, workable shifts rather than long explanations. His background includes long clinical experience in a range of concerns, from mood and trauma to communication and caregiver stress. That variety means he has worked with many kinds of challenges and can draw on multiple approaches to fit the person in front of him.
Clinically, he uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy among other methods. These approaches shape short-term tools and ongoing skills for coping, problem solving, and making values-based choices. Sessions aim to be straightforward and collaborative.
David helps people set realistic goals, practice new behaviors, and track small gains. He also offers coaching-style guidance when clients want practical steps toward life or career changes. David holds the LMHC credential and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor.
He is based in Indiana and provides services in English, including work with international clients through online sessions.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
David commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in his work. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings show up. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replacing them with more effective habits to reduce anxiety and depression.He also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at the client's pace. Together, these approaches give options for both insight and active change. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process - the therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods as needed to fit each person's situation.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit a quick check-in or ongoing thread of support. These formats make it possible to schedule sessions around work, travel, or caregiving and to choose the style that helps someone engage most consistently.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Indiana
- Languages
- English