About David
David Ramstad is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 22 years of clinical experience in Colorado. He offers a warm, direct style that balances compassion with clear, practical guidance. He recognizes how hard it is to ask for help and treats that step with respect.
In sessions he focuses first on listening and understanding what matters most to each person. Conversation often moves toward new ways of seeing problems and small, doable changes to daily habits.
Background and approach
The work is collaborative and paced to fit the client's goals. David draws on several therapy methods to keep the work practical and grounded. He blends client-centered listening with approaches that target thinking patterns and emotional regulation.
He also brings personal life experience to inform pragmatic strategies. People come to him for many concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship difficulties, and ADHD. He also addresses grief, parenting strain, career stress, and issues around attachment and intimacy.
His sessions aim to combine support with honest feedback so progress feels relevant and usable. David focuses on tools and insights that people can apply outside the therapy room to manage stress and navigate life changes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience, offering acceptance and support while helping clients clarify their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills that can reduce impulsive reactions and improve relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative choice helps ensure sessions stay relevant and useful as concerns change over time.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing short reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain consistent contact when life is hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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