About Chase
Chase Longnaker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Kentucky with ten years of clinical experience. He has worked in community and clinical settings and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Chase also supports people navigating ADHD, trauma, grief, parenting strain, and big life changes.
He uses practical, goal-focused conversation to find what helps each person most. Sessions aim to identify patterns that lead to distress and build small, workable changes.
Background and approach
Chase draws on methods that include cognitive behavioral approaches and trauma-focused tools to address symptoms and daily struggles. Chase has experience with children, adolescents, and young adults, and has also worked with adults and couples. He has training relevant to first responders and their communities in Kentucky.
His LMFT credential is listed as KY LMFT and his education includes a masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. In sessions he pays attention to both current problems and the events that shaped them. He helps clients practice different ways of responding to stress, manage impulsivity, and improve communication.
Work often includes skill-building, coping strategies, and processing painful memories at a pace the client chooses. People seeking help for relationship friction, parenting difficulties, ADHD-related challenges, trauma symptoms, or mood concerns will find a focused, steady approach. Chase aims to support clients as they move from crisis toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
How these approaches translate to online work
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and everyday stressors and is well suited to exercises done between sessions.EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, helps people process painful memories and reduce their intensity. In practice it involves guided attention and paced processing and can be used for trauma-related symptoms when a client and therapist agree it fits their goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist evaluates what a person needs and then discusses which methods fit those goals and personal preferences. This is a collaborative decision and can change as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options give flexibility so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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