Ryan Duck, LMHC

LMHC in New York with 10 years of experience, Ryan Duck focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem, and depression. He uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage intense feelings and improve day-to-day functioning. Sessions are practical and straightforward, aimed at making problems easier to handle.

Ryan draws on a mix of clinical settings from his past work. He has experience as a probation officer in New York City, a counselor in the PINS Diversion program, an employee assistance program therapist, and roles in private practice and non-profit clinics. That variety shaped a flexible, problem-focused approach for common life stresses.

In sessions he tends to be relaxed and direct. He asks concrete questions about what is happening now and what the person wants to change. He helps people practice specific skills for managing panic, lowering anxiety, and improving communication.

He also works with relationship concerns such as communication breakdowns, control issues, divorce and separation, and problems around forgiveness, guilt, or shame. He addresses grief, isolation, questions of life purpose, and self-love as part of building more steady daily routines and healthier emotional responses.

Outside clinical work he lives in New York with his wife and two children. He grew up in Pennsylvania, has an interest in genealogy, and follows baseball.

How Ryan applies evidence-based approaches in remote sessions