About Damon
Damon Bryan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and family concerns. He has two decades of clinical experience and aims to make conversations straightforward and practical.
Background and approach
Damon meets people where they are and works with them to set clear goals for change. Damon keeps sessions direct and collaborative.
He creates space for clients to talk about painful experiences without judgment. Together they map out small steps that fit daily life and lead toward better coping and clearer choices.
He draws from several well-known approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers tools for managing strong emotions and building distress tolerance. Damon also uses EMDR when trauma memories are part of the problem, and he brings mindfulness practices to help people improve focus and calm.
He is comfortable working with issues such as grief, intimacy struggles, eating concerns, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and caregiver stress. Across work with individuals, he emphasizes the relationship between therapist and client as the engine of change.
Damon prefers a steady, respectful pace and checks in often to make sure treatment goals still fit what the client wants. Based in Utah, Damon has 21 years of professional experience as an LMFT.
He supports people through major life transitions and complicated emotional problems with practical tools, steady support, and a focus on real-world results.
How Damon’s Approaches Work Online
Damon commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when working with clients online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and focuses on testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression. EMDR addresses troubling memories by pairing focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation to help lessen the emotional intensity of traumatic memories.He treats approach selection as a joint process. Early sessions focus on understanding goals, symptoms, and daily routines so therapist and client can agree on a direction. Damon checks in regularly and adjusts methods if something isn’t working, so treatment stays practical and relevant to the person’s life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs a flexible way to connect between live sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English