About Benjamin
Benjamin Strauel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of practice. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. He aims to help clients find clearer direction and regain control when life feels overwhelming.
Ben uses straightforward, strength-focused work. Sessions start by identifying what matters most to the client. He helps people notice small, practical steps that can reduce pain and build confidence.
Background and approach
Conversations are grounded in respect and realistic goals. His background includes long experience using approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Existential Therapy. That variety lets him match methods to a person’s needs rather than follow a single script.
He leans toward solutions that fit daily life and routines. Ben often helps people navigate relationships, career shifts, grief, trauma, sleep problems, anger, and chronic illness. He also addresses issues like money worries, guilt, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Work can include practical coping skills, values clarification, and steps to rebuild confidence. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. He practices in Michigan and holds an MI LPC credential.
The first sessions focus on what the client wants to change and a simple plan to move forward.
How Ben’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) asks people to name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. In practice this looks like clarifying priorities, learning to notice unhelpful thoughts, and practicing actions that align with what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches concrete skills for changing patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, or sleep problems through experiments and practice between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where a person’s own goals guide the work and the therapist listens deeply to help the client find their answers.Finding the right fit is part of the work. Ben collaborates with each person to decide which approaches to use and adjusts methods as progress is made. Together they set goals, try techniques, and check what helps most so the plan stays relevant to the client’s life.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular work easier. Video calls let the therapist and client interact face to face when needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth varies or a simpler check-in is enough. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter, frequent exchanges or step-by-step coaching between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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