John Uriarte
Experienced LCSW guiding life and family transitions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About John
John Uriarte is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas with nearly four decades of practice. He began clinical social work after earning a Master of Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley and has worked in a variety of settings since 1987. He listens closely and helps people who ask for support during stressful or painful times.
John draws on long experience with life transitions and phase-of-life concerns.
Background and approach
He has worked extensively with veterans and military families, including counseling in deployment settings and later supporting family members coping with change. He continued that work after moving into civilian practice and while working with the Department of Veterans Affairs. In sessions he uses practical, straightforward methods.
He blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-based ideas, and client-centered listening to help people tackle stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship struggles. He also incorporates existential perspectives when people need help with meaning and life direction. John often helps people manage sleep problems, anger, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, and coping with chronic illness or pain.
He emphasizes realistic steps clients can try between sessions and clear goals for change. His style is calm, direct, and respectful. Therapy is available in English and delivered remotely by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and costs vary by location and therapist availability. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
John often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings remain. ACT can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop concrete skills for mood, sleep, and worry management. Attachment-Based Therapy is used when relationship patterns and early bonds affect current family and intimacy issues; it helps people understand how their close relationships shape reactions and choices.Finding the right fit is collaborative. He works with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may combine methods over time and includes setting clear, practical steps to try between sessions.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options let people connect from home, balance therapy with busy schedules, and choose the format that feels most comfortable for talking through parenting, family concerns, or personal transitions.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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