- Years in practice
- 6
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Roian
Roian Baalman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who brings six years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on practical tools parents can use to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and handle parenting challenges. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for a busy life.
Roian blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and make values-based choices. She also uses attachment-based perspectives to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, so people leave with clear steps to try between sessions. Her background includes work in behavioral health and substance use settings and ten years in human services supporting people with intellectual and physical disabilities. That range of settings has shaped an ability to respond to crises, chronic conditions, and complicated life histories without jargon.
She has experience with substance use and medicated-assisted treatment as part of broader care. Roian helps people address a wide range of concerns such as depression, ADHD, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, intimacy and self-esteem struggles, and coping with major life changes. She also supports those facing attachment wounds, abandonment, dissociation, and caregiver stress.
Parenting is a named area of focus and she offers practical strategies relevant to caregivers. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She holds LPC credentials in Missouri and Texas and practices from Missouri.
What Roian works with
Everything Roian lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Roian helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- ADHD
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Roian lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and act in line with their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and parenting moments where you want to respond differently rather than react on autopilot.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with depression, sleep and eating problems, and managing ADHD-related challenges.
Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships influence current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. This approach is helpful when attachment wounds affect intimacy, communication, or caregiving roles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That means trying tools, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when a camera is not needed. Live chat and messaging provide brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit visits into a busy parenting schedule and to use therapy tools in the moments they matter.
Questions people ask about Roian
What concerns can Roian help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, grief, parenting issues, relationship and intimacy struggles, self-esteem, eating and sleeping difficulties, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She mixes practical cognitive tools with acceptance and attachment ideas to create clear next steps.
What kind of experience does she have?
She has six years of clinical experience plus ten years in human services supporting people with intellectual and physical disabilities and time in behavioral health and substance use agencies.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds Licensed Professional Counselor credentials in Missouri and Texas and practices from Missouri.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions conducted and what formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does cost and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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