About Edward
Dr. Edward Varner offers calm, experienced support for adults facing complex life challenges. He keeps the focus on practical steps people can use right away.
Many who reach out are dealing with mood shifts, relationship strain, or the daily impact of anxiety and stress. With 30 years as a licensed professional counselor - mental health service provider (LPC-MHSP) in Tennessee, he brings long-term clinical experience to each meeting. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused, with room for listening and reflection.
Background and approach
He explains options plainly and helps people choose what fits their life. His work addresses depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse recovery, and ADHD among other issues. He also helps with grief, self-esteem, intimacy-related worries, eating concerns, and career stress.
Communication problems, family of origin matters, and addiction are part of his broader practice. Therapy draws on several approaches so treatment is practical and tailored. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice values and take committed action. Attachment-based ideas guide work on long-standing relationship patterns. Sessions are available in English and Japanese, and he accepts international clients.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling once the Start Therapy process is followed.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck on them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at recurring patterns in relationships and works to shift how people relate to others and to themselves, which can aid intimacy and communication issues.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and preferences, and then suggest ways to combine methods. Together they adjust the plan over time so it matches changing needs and real-life results.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing nonverbal cues matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break or a short check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people maintain momentum while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English, Japanese
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