About Haven
Haven Ohly is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Ohio with 20 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, grief, and other life challenges. He brings a straightforward, compassionate presence to sessions and aims to help clients find practical steps forward.
Haven emphasizes trauma-informed care and often uses approaches that target painful memories and difficult emotions. He blends structured interventions with a supportive, person-centered stance.
How Haven works
Sessions typically include talk, skills practice, and strategies to handle intense feelings or cravings. In addition to independent practice, Haven serves as a clinical director at a substance use disorder treatment center. He also draws on personal experience in recovery to relate to people facing substance-related struggles and to offer realistic guidance.
That lived perspective informs how he balances empathy with clear treatment goals. He welcomes conversations about parenting stress, relationship tension, sleep and eating concerns, career changes, ADHD, and chronic health issues. He also addresses topics like abandonment, attachment concerns, and caregiving strain.
Interviews focus on what the client wants to change and what will help them feel steadier day to day. Haven values collaboration and clear plans. He works with clients to set short-term goals and build skills they can use between sessions.
He offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based options for therapy to fit different schedules and needs.
Haven lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Haven works with
The areas below are the ones Haven selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. It helps clients feel heard and clarifies their goals, which can make other work more effective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, addresses traumatic memories by combining focused recollection with guided processing to reduce distress from past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Haven will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That may mean starting with a supportive, client-centered stance, adding CBT skills for day-to-day coping, and using EMDR when processing trauma becomes appropriate.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief check-ins, coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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