About Chris
Chris Freeman-Clark is an independently licensed social worker who brings 21 years of experience to sessions. He focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and anxiety and to help people cope with life changes. He aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping them move toward a more satisfying life.
Chris works with adults who want to address relationship concerns, depression, anger, and trauma or abuse histories.
Background and approach
He also supports people dealing with hoarding or clutter, addictions, grief, and challenges around parenting and fatherhood. Many clients come seeking direction when they want to change but do not know where to begin. In sessions he uses straightforward, person-centered methods.
Conversations focus on the client's goals, strengths, and what is happening day to day. He blends practical techniques with reflective listening to make ideas usable between sessions. Chris also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Motivational interviewing helps when a person feels stuck or ambivalent about making changes. These approaches are used together to match each person's needs and pace. He practices in Ohio and offers multiple online options for people who need flexibility.
The aim is to create clear next steps, reduce overwhelm, and support gradual, sustainable change.
Approaches for online care and making change
Chris uses client-centered methods that focus on each person's goals, values, and strengths. This approach means conversations are guided by what matters most to the client and by listening closely to their experience.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify patterns of thought that contribute to anxiety, low mood, and unhelpful behaviors. CBT provides practical exercises and small behavioral steps people can try between sessions to see real change.
Motivational interviewing is another tool he draws on when someone feels unsure about change. It uses gentle, collaborative questions to clarify motivation and reduce resistance so people can move forward at their own pace.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That discussion shapes which methods are used and how they are combined.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer alternatives when bandwidth or being on camera is a concern. Many people find the variety helpful for staying consistent and making incremental progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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