About John
John Looney is an LPCC licensed counselor practicing in Ohio with seven years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. He also supports work on relationships, self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, and questions around sexual identity and kink culture.
Sessions aim to be direct and practical so clients can take small steps forward. John uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels stuck. He helps people notice patterns that keep causing the same problems.
How John works
Then he introduces tools that match the person’s goals, such as skills for managing intense feelings or ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts. His background includes a mix of approaches that let him adapt to different needs. He draws from cognitive behavior ideas to name and shift thought patterns.
He uses attachment-informed work to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and reactions. In sessions that address trauma, he may use EMDR techniques alongside skills work to reduce upsetting memories and reactions. He also incorporates mindfulness and distress-tolerance strategies when emotions feel overwhelming.
The result is a plan that blends symptom-focused work with longer-term relational insight. John offers a calm, problem-solving style and aims to make therapy feel manageable. He works with people on career stress, grief, parenting concerns, ADHD, caregiver fatigue, chronic illness, and other life transitions.
Conversations explore what matters most and move toward realistic next steps.
John lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What John works with
The areas below are the ones John selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and reactions. In online sessions this can mean talking through patterns in close relationships and practicing new ways to connect or set boundaries. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. It often uses simple in-session exercises and homework that suit video or text formats. EMDR focuses on reducing the intensity of traumatic memories through guided processing and can be adapted to remote delivery with clear step-by-step methods and pacing.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review goals, symptoms, and preferences and suggest a plan that may combine methods. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is tracked and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and day-to-day skill reminders. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain steady support during life transitions.
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