About Joni
Joni Obrecht is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 17 years of experience. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting stress, trauma and a wide range of life changes. Her manner is warm and respectful, and she aims to help people feel heard and understood from the start.
Joni uses practical, collaborative methods that match the problem at hand. She draws on client-centered techniques to build trust, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotional regulation skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and pace. Her background includes long-term practice with trauma, mood disorders, phobias, addiction-related concerns and complex stress reactions. Joni pays attention to how medical issues, caregiving demands, and major life transitions affect mental health.
She also supports people coping with identity-related stress and relationship conflict. In sessions she focuses on clear steps people can use between meetings. That might include skills practice, small behavior changes, and short, solution-focused experiments to test what helps.
Joni explains options plainly and works together with clients to pick strategies that fit daily life. Joni offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging for flexible care. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to availability.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a collaborative relationship, helping people feel respected and understood while they set goals for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives step-by-step tools to reduce anxiety, manage phobias and alter unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches practical emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal skills useful for mood swings, intense emotions and relationship conflict.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through your goals, preferences and daily routines and recommend a mix of methods that fit. Together you can try techniques, evaluate what helps, and adjust the plan over time so it better meets real-life needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video allows face-to-face work when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, skill practice, and maintaining momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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