About David
David Ramstad is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 22 years of experience helping people through hard moments. He brings a direct and compassionate style that aims to make sessions clear and practical.
Background and approach
David respects the courage it takes to reach out and focuses on listening first. He uses plain language and keeps the work grounded in everyday life.
He frames therapy as a collaborative process. Sessions often start with identifying what matters most and setting simple, achievable goals.
David mixes listening with gentle challenge so people can test new ways of handling stress, relationships, or big changes. His practice covers a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, and stress.
He also helps people facing relationship strain, parenting questions, intimacy issues, anger, and career stress. Other areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
David draws on several approaches in session, such as Client-Centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, while keeping the work practical and relevant. He also uses insights from Emotionally-Focused and Existential therapy when they fit the situation.
Based in Colorado, David brings lived experience to his work so conversations stay grounded in real life. He aims to meet people where they are and move at a pace that feels manageable.
How approach and format come together online
David often uses Client-Centered therapy in session, which focuses on listening and helping people name their goals so they feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, respectful space to sort through feelings.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another tool he brings in to teach emotion regulation and coping skills for intense feelings and relationship distress.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to decide what methods make sense based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can include trying different techniques and checking in about what's helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video is good for deeper conversations, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside everyday demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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