About Demire
Demire Coffin-Williams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in New York. He helps people who are feeling stuck by focusing on how thoughts, body sensations, and relationships shape daily life. He works with issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship strain, grief, and sexual concerns in straightforward, practical ways.
He draws on somatic ideas to help clients notice how stress shows up in the body. He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and move toward small, meaningful changes.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Demire completed a master’s degree in clinical counseling and holds the New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, NY LMHC 008305. He came to independent practice after years in nonprofit, agency, and hospital settings.
That background informs his focus on recovery and whole-person care. Sessions address a wide range of concerns, including mood disorders, grief, trauma, relationship problems, sexual and intimacy issues, and substance use. He also supports people navigating body image, caregiver stress, and blended family challenges.
Work in sessions combines talking, body awareness, and skill practice to create concrete steps forward. Therapy can be tailored to fit each person’s life and goals. Demire aims to collaborate on clear, achievable plans.
He accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work helps people tune into body sensations and physical responses to stress, then use breath, movement, and grounding to reduce reactivity and increase awareness. This approach can help with anxiety, trauma symptoms, and stress-related pain.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on naming what matters and taking small actions that reflect those values. It supports people working through avoidance, low mood, and stuck patterns by combining mindfulness with practical goal steps.
Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and reactions. When attachment concerns cause anxiety or conflict, this lens helps people experiment with new ways of relating and feeling safer in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Techniques can be adjusted as progress is made so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats let people fit therapy into busy schedules, keep continuity when travel or relocation happens, and practice skills between sessions. The variety of options supports different communication preferences and makes it easier to stay engaged in the work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English