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Brian's profile is verified by Psychology Today as a Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor and lists his work with high-performing leaders, life coaching, spirituality, and online services.
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Psychological depth without pretending coaching is therapy.
Brian Bachman, MA, LPC, is an executive coach, Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor, author, and speaker based in St. Louis. His clinical background informs how he recognizes patterns; his coaching engagements remain goal-directed coaching under a separate coaching agreement.
Background
Clinical training. Whole-person pattern recognition. Practical coaching.
Brian earned graduate training in counseling and theological studies at Covenant Theological Seminary and has a decade of clinical experience. He is a Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor and the author of Turn Off Porn.
On this site, Brian's executive-coaching work is presented separately from psychotherapy. The coaching is designed for high-functioning adults who want serious growth, clearer decisions, deeper self-understanding, and practical implementation—not emergency care, diagnosis, medication management, or acute psychiatric treatment.
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Brian's public LinkedIn profile provides an additional professional-history and education reference.
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Brian's separate clinical practice documents his counseling background, education, whole-person formulation, and clinical experience. Counseling and coaching remain separate services.
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A consistent theme: understand the mechanism beneath the visible behavior.
Brian's book Turn Off Porn applies a whole-person framework to compulsive behavior, examining emotional, neurological, relational, and spiritual factors rather than relying only on willpower or surface tactics.
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The credential is background. The value proposition is synthesis.
Clients are not paying for a diagnosis or a collection of test scores. The premium coaching process is designed to integrate history, structured questions, appropriate instruments, patterns, strengths, contradictions, relationships, lifestyle, decision-making, purpose, and real-world behavior into a useful working model.
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