Ryan Plasch , LPCC

Ryan Plasch is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who works with adult individuals, couples, and parents to navigate life transitions and relationship challenges. He brings six years of clinical experience with a broad range of mental health concerns and diagnoses, and is known for an approachable, warm, and non-judgmental manner. Ryan blends a positive, practical stance with humor and creative problem solving to help people move forward.

He enjoys supporting people who want to evaluate and redefine their life roles and goals. Ryan helps clients identify repeating thought patterns or "cognitive loops" and the sabotaging thoughts and feelings that keep them stuck. Much of his work centers on softening the inner critic, building emotional intelligence, and realigning daily choices with a person’s values, hopes, and long-term goals.

Ryan sees men and women individually and has a special passion for couples who need to reconnect after difficult life events such as infertility, postpartum changes, grief, and loss. He supports partners in closing emotional and physical distance, repairing attachment and communication wounds, clarifying family goals and values, and reigniting intimacy and sexual chemistry. He also brings personal experience with male infertility, miscarriage, and parenting to his clinical perspective.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then commit to actions that align with what matters most. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and situations where values-guided change is the goal.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is often used to address depression, anxiety, and difficulties with coping and problem solving.

The Gottman Method is a research-informed approach for couples that targets communication, conflict management, and rebuilding emotional and physical connection. It can help partners reconnect after transitions and work through attachment or intimacy concerns.

Ryan uses these methods collaboratively, recognizing that finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. He will work with each person or couple to choose strategies that match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit busy schedules and life demands. Through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, clients can access licensed professionals from home or while traveling, choose the format that feels most comfortable, and maintain continuity of care even when in-person visits are not possible.