About Chad
Chad Petrulis is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate family stress, parenting challenges, and day-to-day overwhelm. He speaks plainly and offers steady support for anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and ADHD-related struggles. Chad aims to create a clear plan so people can take small, manageable steps forward.
Chad tailors conversations and goals to each person's situation. He listens for what matters most and helps set practical goals for home life, caregiving, and relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions concentrate on coping skills, problem-solving, and building routines that fit real life. He draws on four years of clinical practice in Montana and brings empathy and sensitivity to difficult topics like abandonment, attachment issues, and family of origin problems. He also addresses challenges linked to adoption and foster care, fatherhood issues, and blended family dynamics.
Chad works with concerns such as addictions, impulsivity, codependency, isolation, and feelings of emptiness. He helps people facing compassion fatigue, life transitions, and searching for life purpose. His approach is practical and goal-oriented, focused on what can change now.
Clients connect with Chad through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. He accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, applicants complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
How practical therapy techniques translate to online care
Chad uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and routines. For someone struggling with ADHD-related challenges, that often means building simple organizational systems, time management habits, and short behavioral experiments to see what helps. For anxiety and stress, he teaches grounding and breathing strategies alongside step-by-step plans to face difficult situations gradually.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Chad works with each person to identify goals, try different techniques, and refine the plan based on what helps most. He frames sessions as teamwork and adjusts methods as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when that is helpful, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging offer ongoing support between sessions and allow progress to continue without needing to schedule a full appointment. These options make the work more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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