David Routly

Having worked for many years in the criminal justice and community mental health world, I have had the opportunity to serve a wide variety of clients who have experienced significant trauma. I am trained in EMDR, and I am able to help clients to manage the impact of trauma through multiple therapeutic modalities. My goal is to help you to feel safe as we work through issues and concerns related to past trauma.

ACT helps you stop fighting your thoughts and feelings and start building a life aligned with what truly matters to you. Rather than eliminating painful experiences, we learn to hold them differently — with flexibility and self-compassion. Through mindfulness and values clarification, ACT helps you take meaningful action even when difficult emotions are present. It's especially effective for anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and stress.

DBT builds four core skills: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Originally developed for borderline personality disorder, it's now widely used for anyone who feels emotions intensely or struggles to manage reactions in relationships and high-stress moments. DBT is practical and skill-focused — you leave sessions with concrete tools you can use immediately in your daily life.

EMDR is a structured, evidence-based therapy for trauma. Distressing memories are often stored in ways that keep them feeling present and raw. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation — typically guided eye movements — to help the brain reprocess those memories so they lose their grip. It doesn't require you to talk through trauma in detail.

Adults with ADHD are often the most creative people in the room — and the most exhausted. I work with inattentive, hyperactive, and combined presentations, including rejection sensitive dysphoria, time blindness, emotional dysregulation, and the shame that builds from a lifetime of struggling in systems not designed for your brain. Using CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing, we go beyond productivity tips to address both the behavioral and emotional sides of ADHD.

Anxiety convinces you the worry is the problem — when often it's a response your nervous system learned long ago. I work with generalized anxiety, panic, social anxiety, and anxiety that overlaps with ADHD, depression, or trauma. Using ACT, CBT, and DBT, we work on understanding what your anxiety is responding to and building skills that hold up under real pressure. For trauma-rooted anxiety, I integrate EMDR.