About Chase
Chase Longnaker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Kentucky. He brings ten years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Chase uses straightforward, practical strategies in sessions and aims to make therapy feel approachable for busy families and individuals. He works with children, adolescents, young adults, adults, and couples, and has experience with first responder populations in Kentucky.
Chase blends methods to match each person's situation, drawing on approaches that target symptoms and build coping skills. Sessions are goal-oriented and grounded in real-life steps clients can try between meetings.
Chase emphasizes clear treatment planning and safety planning when needed. He has experience with crisis response, behavioral assessment, and documentation to support ongoing progress.
That experience helps him identify practical next steps and measure change over time. In sessions he listens for strengths and resilience, then helps people use those strengths to move forward.
Many clients work on communication, boundaries, parenting challenges, grief, or managing mood and impulse concerns. He also supports people dealing with family-of-origin issues, blended family dynamics, and commitment or intimacy concerns.
Chase earned a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and holds LMFT licensure in Kentucky. His approach mixes cognitive and trauma-focused tools with brief solution-focused work, always shaped by each person’s goals and pace.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Chase commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR-based trauma work in his practice. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood, which can be practiced in short exercises between sessions. EMDR-style approaches help people process traumatic memories and the emotions tied to them through guided techniques that can be adapted for online sessions when appropriate.He also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, achievable goals and track small wins. Chase approaches choice of method collaboratively - he will talk with each person about their goals, try an approach, and adjust the plan based on what actually helps. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a fixed decision up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat lets people check in between sessions or use shorter focused updates. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting around school, work, or parenting demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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