About Wayne
Wayne Groves uses a practical, person-focused approach to counseling. He guides people toward clearer self-awareness and helps them handle stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain. Wayne speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel doable for everyday life.
Wayne earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from Creighton University and has practiced for 25 years. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, who has worked in Nebraska and Michigan.
How Wayne works
His background includes work with law enforcement trauma and concerns related to police survivors. In sessions he combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused methods. He helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try alternative responses, and practice small changes that make a difference day to day.
Motivational interviewing is used to support readiness for change. Wayne also draws on existential ideas to help people weigh values, meaning, and life choices. This can be useful for those facing career shifts, major loss, or questions about purpose.
He pays attention to how life events affect daily routines and relationships. Common concerns he works with include addictions, parenting stress, intimacy issues, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to illness or end-of-life care. He also supports people dealing with first responder or veteran-related issues, communication problems, and the fallout from divorce or infidelity.
Wayne’s style is straightforward and hopeful. He helps people turn obstacles into opportunities and build practical plans for coping and moving forward.
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What Wayne works with
The areas below are the ones Wayne 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client’s lead to build understanding and trust. Online sessions use that same focus by giving space to talk through concerns and set goals in the moment. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thinking patterns and actions. In remote work CBT is used to spot unhelpful thoughts, try small experiments between sessions, and track practical changes over time.Finding the right approach is part of the early work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This is a collaborative process meant to match techniques to what feels useful and realistic for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video supports face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging helps maintain momentum between sessions. These options offer flexibility and allow people to choose what works best for their routine.
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