About Bruce
Bruce Engelhard is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Utah. He holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and brings 15 years of clinical experience to his work. He blends outdoor guiding experience with therapy to create practical, down-to-earth sessions.
Bruce describes his style as compassionate, interactive, and respectful. Clients can expect straightforward conversations that focus on everyday changes. Sessions use a mix of talking, skill practice, and short exercises.
He draws on tools from acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavior strategies, and mindfulness to address stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD concerns, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
Bruce values collaboration. He sees clients as the experts on their lives and helps them shape a path forward. Treatment plans are adjusted to match each person’s goals and pace, with an emphasis on building self-worth and practical coping skills.
His background includes guiding and outdoor education, which he sometimes incorporates into therapeutic work. That experience informs a hands-on, movement-friendly approach for people who respond well to active or nature-based methods. Bruce also offers support for grief, hospice and end-of-life issues, prejudice and discrimination, seasonal affective disorder, and compassion fatigue.
He aims to help people find more daily enjoyment and resilience through steady, realistic steps.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Bruce often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing thoughts and values-based action. ACT helps people move toward what matters despite difficult feelings by teaching simple noticing and action skills.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues and for learning concrete strategies to change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bruce will collaborate with each person to decide which methods make the most sense for their goals and preferences. That decision is revisited over time so therapy stays aligned with changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in fits a schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Utah, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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