Jeffrey Owen
Experienced counselor blending humanistic and cognitive care
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Owen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio. He uses a blend of humanistic and cognitive approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and depression. He writes plainly and focuses on clear, practical steps so conversations are easy to follow.
His long career informs a calm, steady presence during difficult moments. Jeff has 45 years of experience in mental health counseling. Early in his career he worked with Vietnam combat veterans experiencing severe post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
He later trained in clinical hypnotherapy in 1992 and has used those techniques selectively with trauma-related concerns. His practice emphasizes creating a respectful, accepting space where clients can speak openly. He favors active dialogue and genuine therapist participation rather than a purely hands-off stance.
As rapport develops, he works with clients to identify obstacles and pursue clearer goals. Over time his style has grown more cognitive and instructional because clients often feel empowered when they understand their difficulties. He also draws on existential and Jungian ideas to consider life meaning and identity when useful.
In recent years he has focused more on trauma-informed methods and combines cognitive-behavioral tools with other techniques when needed. Sessions aim to help people learn practical coping skills, improve communication, and address problematic patterns. Jeffrey encourages steady, realistic steps toward change, and offers a collaborative approach that seeks to fit methods to each person’s situation.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Jeffrey combines client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people tackle symptoms and practical problems. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on empathy, acceptance, and building trust so clients can talk openly about what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, then teaches clear strategies to change them and reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. He works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. This allows clients to try different tools and choose what feels most helpful for them.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone or text options can suit shorter check-ins or days when talking live feels difficult. These options make it easier to maintain steady work on goals and access care from various locations.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 45 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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