About John
John Looney is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with seven years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical steps people can take when stress, anxiety, low mood, or relationship strain make daily life harder. He uses plain language and a calm tone to help people sort out what matters most to them.
His approach centers on listening first and then building a plan that fits each person's situation.
Background and approach
He draws on client-centered work to make space for each person's priorities. He also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. John often helps people who are dealing with trauma, grief, or struggles around identity and intimacy.
He also supports those facing challenges like ADHD, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, or career stress. He will work with each person to set realistic goals and small, clear steps toward them. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
John blends practical skills training with attention to how relationships and past experiences shape current patterns. He aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first few meetings. People who prefer straightforward guidance and collaborative planning tend to do well with his style.
He encourages questions about the process and adjusts plans as needs change. If someone wants a down-to-earth therapist who lays out options and helps choose next steps, he can help map that path.
How approaches adapt to online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape current reactions. In online work this can mean talking through recurring triggers and practicing new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change feelings and outcomes; it translates well to video or text-based sessions with concrete homework and short practice exercises. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills which can be taught step-by-step in session and reinforced between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then recommend one or a mix of methods. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy with John uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins into a busy day and to keep momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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