Benjamin Wrase
Supportive, practical help for parenting and family concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Benjamin
Benjamin Wrase is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with related emotional and behavioral issues. He brings 20 years of experience and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. He speaks English and offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or text.
His training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. He often helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, and addictions.
Background and approach
He also addresses relationship and communication problems, forgiveness, guilt, and low self-esteem. In sessions he listens closely, asks clear questions, and helps clients try small, specific changes between meetings. Benjamin blends practical therapy skills with attention to clients' personal values and beliefs.
He uses tools from CBT to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness techniques help people notice feelings without getting overwhelmed. Motivational Interviewing supports those who want to change behaviors but feel stuck.
His work is collaborative - he helps set goals together and adjusts the plan as progress is made. He encourages skills practice and real-world experiments to test what works. Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and focused on what matters most to each person.
Benjamin holds an Illinois LCSW, license number IL LCSW 149029537. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the service’s process.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Benjamin uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily stressors. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention exercises to notice feelings and reduce reactivity, which can help with anger, stress, and rumination. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that supports people ready to change habits like substance use by exploring ambivalence and strengthening motivation.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they test methods and adapt the plan so the work fits the client’s life and values.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone, live chat, and text messaging offer shorter or more flexible check-ins. These options help maintain continuity of care and make it simpler to practice new skills between meetings.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
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Also works with
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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