About Benjamin
Benjamin (Ben) Keplar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Indiana. He centers sessions on respect, compassion, and listening so clients set the pace and decide what to work on. Ben aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and other life challenges.
Ben uses practical tools and several evidence-based approaches to match what a person needs. He combines client-centered work with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
Background and approach
He also draws on dialectical behavior strategies and motivational interviewing when those methods fit the situation. Over five years of practice have focused on mental health and addiction settings. That experience includes working with people who face housing instability, medical social work needs, caregiver stress, and inpatient addiction care.
He brings that background into sessions when it helps a person solve immediate problems and plan next steps. Ben helps people with a wide range of concerns, including self-esteem, coping with life changes, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stresses, career concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
He also addresses topics such as chronic pain and illness, blended family dynamics, and challenges tied to substance use. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Ben supports people who prefer practical, goal-focused work and collaborative decision making about therapy goals and methods.
Using practical therapy approaches online
Client-centered therapy focuses on making the person the expert on their life. The therapist listens, reflects, and follows the pace the person sets to help clarify goals and choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses simple exercises to change patterns that increase anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when relationships feel strained.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time. That team approach makes it easier to find methods that feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which helps people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls are useful for visual connection and longer sessions. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for simpler check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to get consistent support and to use therapy tools between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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