About Ray
Ray Woods brings a practical, person-centered approach to therapy. He uses clear conversation and focused tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Ray is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist, LCMFT, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in Oklahoma with 16 years of experience. Ray adapts sessions to each person's needs.
He listens, asks straightforward questions, and helps people try new ways of handling painful thoughts and difficult moments. Sessions include goal-setting and simple skills people can use between meetings.
He works with a wide range of relationship and life concerns. That includes relationship problems, communication breakdowns, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress.
He also supports people coping with trauma, domestic violence, addiction, obsessive and compulsive behaviors, isolation, and feelings of emptiness. Ray combines approaches that emphasize connection and practical change.
He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships, client-centered ways of keeping the person’s experience central, and cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also uses emotionally-focused and Gottman-informed strategies when relationship patterns are a main concern.
Many people find his style direct but warm. He helps create a clear plan, checks progress, and adjusts the work as needed.
If someone wants a steady, collaborative path through stress, anxiety, relationship trouble, or low mood, he offers an experienced guide.
Therapeutic approaches for online relationship and mood work
Ray often uses client-centered work, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioral techniques in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and pacing, helping them talk through feelings and find their own solutions. Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early connection styles affect current interactions, which can help when trust or closeness feels difficult. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, targets specific thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, low mood, and obsessive thinking.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This helps ensure the work matches what the person actually needs rather than following a fixed formula.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions let people use visual cues and real-time conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera feels easier. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins and the chance to share thoughts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Kansas
- Languages
- English