Curtis Spears, LMHC, LPC

Curtis Spears is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, and addiction. He also works with issues like ADHD, sleep problems, anger, career transitions, and intimacy-related struggles.

Curtis keeps sessions practical and direct. He listens carefully and helps people find concrete steps to feel better. He draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to match tools to a person's needs.

His background includes work in a hospital psychiatric unit, a pediatric clinic, and employee assistance counseling in a large hospital and city system. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Louisiana State University, Shreveport. Those roles gave him wide exposure to many life situations and cultural perspectives.

Curtis runs a solo practice from Louisiana while holding licensure in Florida and Oregon as well. He sees clients in those states and also accepts international clients. He is generally available six days a week and can sometimes open additional appointment times when needed.

Outside of work he values family life with his wife and children, and enjoys sailing, backpacking, snow skiing, and cooking, especially apple pie. He aims to bring a calm, accepting presence to sessions and to help people build practical skills for daily life.

Therapeutic approaches and online options

Curtis commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes clarifying values and taking meaningful action while learning to live with difficult emotions, which can help with stress, grief, and chronic concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Curtis will talk with each client about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the individual's needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist work together to decide what techniques feel most useful.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and vary how they engage with the work.