David Parker
Experienced counsellor for anxiety and trauma
About David
David Parker has practised as a counsellor for 12 years and holds BACP accreditation. He works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and depression. David aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried and unsure about starting therapy.
He keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. Conversations are shaped around the person's immediate concerns and practical goals. David adapts his approach so the work fits each person's pace and situation rather than forcing a single method.
Background and approach
David draws on several ways of working to help people who feel stuck after a major change or loss. He uses client-centred techniques to follow what matters most to the person and psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns that repeat over time. Cognitive behavioural methods are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small, testable changes.
People bring many issues to sessions, including attachment wounds, abandonment fears, body image worries, and difficulties with commitment or communication. David also supports those coping with cancer, caregiving stress, dissociation, and the emotional fallout of separation. Sessions are offered in English from Kentucky and are arranged to suit each person's life.
He works with adults on topics such as coping with life changes, codependency, and exploring identity within alternative sexual cultures. The emphasis is on clear, steady progress and building the tools people need to feel more able in daily life.
What David works with
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy is about putting the person's priorities first. The counsellor follows what feels most pressing and helps the person find their own solutions, which can suit issues like grief, anxiety and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep distress going. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety and low mood, and to build coping skills for day-to-day life.
Using a mix of these approaches, the therapist will work together with the person to decide what fits best. That choice is reviewed as the work progresses so techniques and focus can change to meet evolving goals.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversational experience, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and busy lives while keeping the therapeutic process consistent.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
