David Spann

David Spann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 29 years of clinical work. He focuses on helping people move past addiction, trauma, mood challenges, and the stress that affects work and relationships. He brings practical counseling alongside coaching skills to help clients set and reach goals.

He uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. He also uses client-centered methods to keep the person's goals and values front and center. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used for skills like managing mood, reducing anxiety, and changing unhelpful thinking.

David's background includes outpatient, residential, and hospital settings, plus work at a naval hospital with active duty Marines. That experience informs his approach to trauma, addiction, and the ripple effects on family and work roles. He also draws on many years of leadership and coaching work in organizations.

Sessions emphasize practical steps, skills practice, and clearer communication. He often blends mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to support change and strengthen coping. The work aims to be direct and usable in daily life.

Clients seeking help with career decisions, relationship struggles, grief, or persistent mood concerns will find a straightforward, skills-based approach. To begin, prospective clients follow the site's Start Therapy process and schedule according to availability.

How his approaches translate to online work

David uses Attachment-Based Therapy to examine how past and current relationships shape feelings and reactions, which can help with intimacy issues, codependency, and communication problems. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the client's priorities and values at the center, so sessions focus on what matters most to the person and on building a comfortable pace for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides clear, practical tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. David collaborates with each person to tailor methods to their needs and goals. He will discuss which techniques fit best and adjust plans as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and relevant.

Because the therapist's session formats are not specified here, confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy routine, allow short check-ins during a workday break, reduce travel time, and let people use less bandwidth by choosing audio-only options when appropriate. Licensed professionals often combine skill practice, structured CBT worksheets, mindfulness exercises, and motivational interviewing in remote sessions so tools can be used between meetings.