Henry "Jay" Swedlaw, LPCC, LCMHC

Henry "Jay" Swedlaw is a licensed counselor with two decades of clinical experience. He holds LPCC and LCMHC credentials and practices from Texas. Jay focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. He works in a straightforward way. Sessions look at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and then try small changes to test what helps. Jay draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other approaches to help people notice connections between thinking, feeling, and behavior. Many clients come for work on relationships, intimacy, and communication. He also helps with addictions, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and challenges tied to gender and sexual identity. Jay pays attention to issues listeners often find hard to name, such as emptiness, codependency, and alternative sex culture questions. His style is direct and calm. He aims to create an affirming, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on skills that can be used between meetings. Practical tools, short experiments, and clear goals are part of his approach. He may use mindfulness, acceptance strategies, narrative work, or solution-focused steps depending on the need. Jay also offers coaching-style support for career or life-change decisions. To begin, a brief questionnaire and scheduling step match you with his practice. Sessions are available in several online formats to fit different schedules and life demands.

Practical approaches for online therapy and change

Henry uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that lead to clearer results. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many daily struggles where changing patterns helps reduce symptom burden.

He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult feelings. Mindfulness Therapy appears in sessions as simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and support better self-awareness.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Jay will check in about your goals and preferences and suggest methods to try. Together you can adapt techniques over time so the work fits your life and needs.

Online therapy here includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth work and visual cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.