David Schwartz, LCPC

David Schwartz is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 15 years of experience. He works with adults and adolescents and offers individual therapy, couples therapy, and family therapy. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, anger, depression, addictions, grief, and related concerns.

His practice aims at practical change. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings. He uses mindfulness as a steady practice to support other therapeutic work.

David draws on a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, existential ideas, and Jungian perspectives. That variety lets him match techniques to the problem at hand - for example, using behavior-focused exercises for anxiety or values work for life-direction concerns.

Work in sessions tends to be direct and action-oriented. People learn to notice unhelpful patterns, try different responses, and practice those responses outside sessions. He discusses concrete steps for improving relationships, sleep, work stress, and managing strong emotions like anger.

Background and approach: David earned a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He emphasizes that therapy often requires doing new things in daily life, not just talking. He frames therapy as a place to try strategies, reflect on results, and adjust goals over time. Sessions explore personal values, coping skills, and patterns that keep problems going.

How his approaches translate to online work