About Ryan
Ryan Suhr is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings a decade of clinical experience to his work in Nebraska. He frames therapy as goal-oriented help for people who want clearer direction in life, relationships, and work. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use after a session.
He combines ideas from psychology and philosophy to help clients find meaning and solve day-to-day problems. Sessions aim to identify goals, spot patterns that get in the way, and build small habits that move people forward.
Background and approach
Ryan draws on several methods to match the way each person prefers to work. People come to him for many concerns - stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, ADHD, and career questions. He also supports those dealing with trauma, identity questions, and complex family dynamics.
His background includes work with adoption and foster care matters and other focused areas like attachment issues and communication problems. Ryan uses clear language in sessions and avoids technical jargon. He tends to ask direct questions, reflect what he hears, and offer simple tools clients can try between meetings.
Progress is discussed in terms of concrete changes toward the goals a person brings. Over the years he has worked with a broad range of adults and has experience guiding people through life transitions and long-term struggles.
He holds credentials as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor and as a LIMHP - Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner, and offers services in English.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Ryan uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where a person’s goals guide the work. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people name what they want to change or strengthen.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT offers concrete exercises that can reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve day-to-day coping.
Choosing the right method is part of the process. Ryan will talk with each person about what feels most useful, try approaches together, and adjust based on how things are progressing. The plan is collaborative and shaped by the client’s goals and preferences.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Video calls are good when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs. Text and chat formats let people check in between meetings or use shorter, focused exchanges when that suits their day.
These options make it easier to keep regular contact, practice new skills between sessions, and fit therapy into work and family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- 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
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Washington
- Languages
- English