Doug Casper
Practical counseling for real-life family concerns
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Doug
Doug Casper is a licensed counselor with 27 years of experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, addiction, and many life changes. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that can make everyday life feel more manageable.
Doug aims to help clients understand how they fit with others and in their surroundings. He listens first and helps people name the problems that feel overwhelming. From there he offers straightforward tools to reduce distress and improve choices.
Background and approach
His approach blends several therapies to match each person's needs. That can mean learning new ways to deal with upsetting thoughts, practicing skills to change unhelpful behaviors, or using steady support to process painful experiences. He encourages small, steady steps rather than big, sudden changes.
Doug is credentialed as an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - and an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor. He is based in Ohio and uses what he has learned across many years to guide his work. Sessions focus on clear goals and on what a person wants their life to look like.
He works collaboratively and adjusts methods when something is not helping. The goal is useful, doable change that fits each person's daily life. People often come for help with parenting stress, family problems, grief, work pressures, or issues like codependency and communication.
Doug aims to create a practical plan and walk alongside clients as they try new ways of coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It is useful when worry, avoidance, or confusing emotions make daily life harder.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress and focuses on small exercises you can try between sessions.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then try methods that feel like a good fit. Adjustments are made together if something is not working.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. These formats let people fit sessions around work, parenting, and other demands. They also make it easier to continue care when life gets busy or travel is required, while keeping the focus on real-world steps and usable skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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