John Crusius
Helping people find direction and practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About John
John Crusius is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas. He brings 12 years of experience as a therapist and life coach. He focuses on practical steps and clear conversation to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and questions about meaning and purpose.
He often meets clients after a major life change - loss, job shift, or a painful relationship turn. He listens closely and helps people find small, concrete changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
He uses mindfulness and meditation when clients are open to those tools. His practice draws on client-centered work to follow each person's priorities. He pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to shift patterns that fuel anxiety or depression.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants help making a lasting change, like reducing substance use or improving routines. John describes his own career shift as part of why he values purposeful work. That experience shaped how he supports people who feel stuck or empty and want clearer direction.
He tailors plans to individual needs rather than offering a one-size-fits-all program. Sessions are designed to be straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on problem-solving, building new habits, and exploring meaning.
People who want a direct, collaborative approach with a Texas LPC may find his style useful.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy centers on listening and following what matters most to the client. The therapist asks open questions, mirrors concerns, and helps a person identify priorities and values. This approach is useful when someone needs space to sort out feelings and decide what they want next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses clear strategies like identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and building healthier routines. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and patterns that keep coming back.
Motivational interviewing helps when a client is ready to change but feels uncertain or stuck. It uses collaborative questions that strengthen motivation and plan doable steps toward goals such as reducing substance use or improving daily habits.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to your goals and suggests methods that match your needs and preferences. Plans can change as you make progress and learn what helps most.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to fit into a busy life. Video and phone sessions provide real-time conversation, while live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, reduce travel time, and let people pick the format that feels most comfortable.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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