Rev. Larry Payne
Compassionate counseling grounded in practical change
LPC Texas
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Grief, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Larry
Rev. Larry Payne is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who draws on practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients navigate periods of loss, anxiety, depression, and life transition.
Background and approach
He frames therapy as a collaborative process that allows for careful personal exploration and gradual change, meeting people where they are and moving at a pace that feels manageable. His work emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical skills to improve daily functioning and emotional balance.
With 15 years as a licensed counselor and more than four decades in helping roles overall, he brings a broad background addressing grief, trauma, relationship struggles, spiritual distress, and compassion fatigue. He also attends to concerns linked to caregiving, aging, end-of-life matters, fatherhood and men’s issues, and career or life-purpose questions.
Rev. Payne respects clients' individual spiritual perspectives and integrates that understanding when it supports therapeutic goals.
He invites those facing difficult transitions to take a step toward renewed meaning and adjustment through steady, experience-informed counseling.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and support better daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and developing psychological flexibility, which can be useful for coping with grief, life transitions, and persistent distress. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing traumatic memories and building strategies to reduce their ongoing impact on functioning and relationships.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is shaped by each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Rev. Payne collaborates with clients to determine which methods fit best, adapting techniques over time so therapy remains aligned with progress and emerging concerns.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or mobility challenges. These formats allow ongoing access to a licensed professional from different locations and can make it easier to maintain consistency in treatment while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English