Todd Nelson, LCPC

Todd Nelson is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with three decades of experience in mental health care. He practices from a down-to-earth perspective and focuses on practical steps people can use to feel steadier. Todd keeps things straightforward and works to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and other everyday struggles.

Todd’s background includes service in the Air Force and long work in outpatient and inpatient settings. He has experience with corrections work and with supporting people facing trauma, mood disorders, and issues like obsessive thinking and self-harm. That range shaped a calm, problem-solving style he brings to sessions.

In sessions he leans on cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered and solution-focused methods. He uses these approaches to help people identify unhelpful thinking, build new habits, and set doable goals. Dialectical behavior ideas and parts work with Internal Family Systems also inform how he helps people regulate emotions and sort through internal conflict.

Todd describes his role as helping the person steering their life’s ship. He avoids heavy jargon and aims for language that feels clear and useful. He also draws on life experience outside therapy, including military service and practical trades, when it helps the conversation.

Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. He works with concerns such as parenting strain, workplace stress, relationship pain, trauma and post-traumatic stress, bipolar and mood disorders, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.

How Todd’s Approaches Work Online

Todd commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered work when meeting online. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to see real effects, which helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting conversation so people feel heard while they set goals.

He also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas to teach concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. Those DBT strategies can be useful for intense mood swings, anger, or when someone needs step-by-step coping tools between sessions. Todd aims to match the approach to what each person needs, and he works collaboratively to decide what to try first based on symptoms, goals, and personal preference.

Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat lets people check in quickly, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. This range helps people fit therapy into busy lives while using the methods that best support their progress.