About Skip
Rev. Skip Beyer offers compassionate, person-centered care that combines practical counseling methods with options for faith-informed conversation. He draws on 19 years of experience and works from Indiana as a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC.
Sessions focus on building strengths and practical skills to manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and other life challenges. He blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and narrative work may be used to help people notice patterns and tell a different story about themselves. He adapts a treatment plan to each person's needs and preferences. Many people seek help for addiction recovery, relationship and intimacy concerns, and mood struggles like depression and bipolar symptoms.
He also addresses trauma and abuse, ADHD-related concerns, sleep problems, anger, compassion fatigue, and the effects of caregiving or chronic illness. He supports those coping with divorce, loss, abandonment, adoption and blended family challenges. Sessions may include faith-informed material and scripture when requested, integrating spiritual beliefs with clinical approaches in a way the client finds helpful.
He emphasizes empathy, active listening, and encouragement as people work toward change. Therapy begins with identifying strengths rather than focusing on shortcomings. Over time clients practice new communication skills, coping strategies, and problem-solving tools to manage life changes and reduce symptoms related to stress, addiction, and grief.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and letting the person lead the conversation. It helps people who need a safe space to sort feelings, regain confidence, and set goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions without judgment and can assist with stress, sleep problems, and emotion regulation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something doesn’t help, the plan is adjusted so work stays practical and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people use visual cues when building rapport. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins, reminders, or skills practice between longer sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English