About Haven
Haven Ohly is a licensed independent social worker with 20 years of experience working with adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and a range of trauma-related concerns including PTSD and complex loss. He brings a practical, compassionate presence to sessions and aims to help people manage symptoms, make decisions, and build routines that fit their daily lives.
Haven’s background includes leadership in substance use disorder treatment and lived experience in recovery, which inform his direct and nonjudgmental style.
Background and approach
He draws on a blend of approaches to match what the person needs in the moment. That can mean learning coping skills, looking at thought patterns, or using trauma-focused work to reduce the hold of past events. Sessions are structured but collaborative.
He listens for what matters most to each person and then offers clear tools and homework that are realistic to try between meetings. He also respects spiritual or faith-based perspectives when clients want to include those in care.
Haven practices in Ohio and works with adults on concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, anger, sleep and eating issues, career transitions, ADHD, and identity or purpose questions. He also addresses additional areas like attachment, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and adoption-related concerns. In conversations he blends client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness exercises, and trauma-informed methods such as EMDR when appropriate.
The goal is steady progress - smaller changes that add up to better daily functioning and clearer choices.
Therapeutic approaches and what online work looks like
Haven often blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral methods and trauma-focused work to meet real-life needs. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s experience and goals, creating space to tell one’s story and decide what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and behavior links, offering concrete techniques for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Trauma-focused approaches such as EMDR are used to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and help people move forward from past events.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Haven will discuss options and try methods that fit the client’s goals and comfort level. Together they set priorities, test practical skills between sessions, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper work and real-time interaction, phone sessions can require less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets clients reflect and receive support between meetings. These options increase flexibility and help people keep momentum toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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