About Dean
Dean Williams helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about next steps. He meets people where they are and focuses on practical ways to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and cope with life changes.
Background and approach
Dean's approach is straightforward and goal-focused, and he says the work is a mix of changing thoughts, noticing feelings, and trying different behaviors. He holds Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) credentials and has practiced for 11 years.
Dean combines short-term strategies like cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance-based skills to ease hard moments. He also teaches tools to improve impulse control and emotional awareness.
Dean offers career counseling alongside therapy. He helps people clarify decisions, rebuild motivation, and design a career plan that fits their values.
Work on career concerns often includes exploring family influences and identifying personal strengths. In relationship work he focuses on communication, boundaries, commitment concerns, and intimacy-related issues.
He uses practical exercises people can try between sessions to test new ways of interacting. He also supports those coping with grief, sleep problems, addictions, self-esteem challenges, and seasonal mood shifts.
Sessions are conducted with an eye toward what feels doable for each person. Dean emphasizes small, steady changes and building on what already works.
The aim is clearer direction and better day-to-day coping.
Approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choosing actions that fit personal values; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and difficulty coping with change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and helps people try new ways of relating to close others. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building strength from the client's own goals, giving space for people to set the pace and topics of work.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's daily life and adjust as progress happens.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins and a way to process things between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or other commitments and let people keep momentum without travel time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English