Joni Obrecht
Calm, practical support for life and parenting struggles
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joni
Joni Obrecht is a licensed professional clinical counselor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She speaks plainly and listens first, aiming to make sessions feel comfortable and respectful. Parents and adults looking for practical support often find the straightforward, warm style helpful.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Dialectical behavior therapy skills support emotional regulation and managing strong feelings.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques help set goals and notice small, useful changes. Joni draws on 17 years of experience in Ohio as an LPCC, and she adapts sessions to each person’s needs. Her work includes trauma-informed practices and trauma-focused methods when needed.
The approach is interactive and nonjudgmental, with attention to each person's pace. Sessions tend to focus on concrete steps: identifying patterns, learning skills, and trying new ways of coping between meetings. Clients sometimes practice breathing and grounding exercises, try thought records, or set small behavior goals.
Joni checks in about progress and adjusts the plan as things change. For parents worried about family stress or parenting challenges, the emphasis is on realistic strategies that can fit into busy lives. The goal is steady, manageable change rather than quick fixes.
Joni invites people to begin by describing what matters most to them and then building a plan together.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses simple exercises to notice thoughts and change behaviors, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping strategies.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try methods that match those needs. Treatment is collaborative and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to use tools from CBT and DBT between meetings. Remote formats let people work on skills, track progress, and maintain continuity of care even when life is busy or travel is necessary.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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