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Ralph DeMar

Empowerment through insight and practical skills

LPC Texas

Experience
20 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages
English
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About Ralph

Ralph DeMar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical experience helping people address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, grief, ADHD, and a wide range of other life challenges.

Background and approach

He frames therapy as an educational and empowering process that helps clients uncover how early influences and learned patterns shape current reactions and relationships. Using a strengths-oriented stance, he guides clients to identify unhelpful schemas learned from family systems and to develop healthier ways of thinking and relating.

Ralph emphasizes reclaiming voice and identity as central goals, supporting clients to make courageous choices that align with their values. His approach blends practical skill-building with deeper exploration of meaning and attachment, offering tools for coping with anger, parenting struggles, sleep and eating difficulties, process addictions, sexual trauma and dysfunction, and issues related to prejudice or compassion fatigue.

Based in Texas, he brings a direct yet compassionate presence aimed at helping people move from devaluation and hurt toward renewed self-respect and agency.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Ralph integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Attachment-Based Therapy to address both practical patterns and relational roots. CBT focuses on identifying and shifting thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, compulsions, or addiction-related patterns, offering specific skills to reduce distress and change habits. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current emotional responses and interpersonal expectations, helping clients understand relational patterns and foster healthier connections.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is done collaboratively. The therapist partners with each client to clarify goals, weigh different methods, and adapt interventions to fit the person's needs and preferences rather than insisting on a single technique.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit work and family schedules through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to access consistent care from Texas-based licensed professionals, allow for shorter check-ins or deeper sessions as needed, and can help clients apply skills in real time between meetings.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does this therapist help with?
He works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related problems, addictions, grief, ADHD, and many related areas such as sexual assault and process addictions.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
Therapy is presented as an educational and empowering experience that blends insight into early influences with practical skill-building to change unhelpful patterns.
What is his experience in the field?
He has 20 years of experience as a mental health professional, drawing on long-term clinical work to support clients through complex life challenges.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
He is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the credential TX LPC 14726 and practices in Texas.
Which languages are available and can international clients join?
Therapy is offered in English, and he is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered for online work?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and preferences.
How are costs and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that may be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseDepression

Also works with

AddictionsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

First responder issuesJealousyVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesObsessions, compulsions, and OCDParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPrejudice and discriminationProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunction

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

20+ years

Licensed

Texas

Languages

English