About Haven
Haven Ohly is a licensed independent social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and life transitions. He brings 20 years of practice to sessions and combines practical tools with a compassionate, straightforward style. People meet him for help with depression, substance use concerns, relationship strain, grief, and challenges like sleep or eating problems.
Haven draws on client-centered work to make the room focused on the person's needs. He uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build useful habits.
Background and approach
He also offers EMDR for processing traumatic memories and mindfulness approaches to reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment coping. His background includes leadership at a substance use disorder treatment center and personal experience in recovery, which inform a nonjudgmental and empathetic stance. He emphasizes clear structure in sessions while honoring each person's story and values.
Spiritual or faith-based perspectives can be included when a person wants that integrated into care. Haven works from Ohio and offers services to people who live outside the United States as well. Sessions focus on practical steps - learning skills, practicing new ways of thinking, and making small changes that add up.
He strives to help people feel more capable and steady in daily life. For those coping with attachment concerns, abandonment, caregiving stress, chronic illness, identity questions, or career strain, he offers tailored support. His aim is to help clients move forward with clearer goals and renewed resilience.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Haven commonly uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and EMDR in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person, helping them feel heard and guiding goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thinking and to build new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve mood. EMDR is a structured method for processing painful memories and reducing their emotional charge over time.Choosing the best approach is collaborative. He will discuss goals, past experiences, and preferences and then try methods that fit the person's needs. The process can include skill practice between sessions, short check-ins, and regular reviews to see what is helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and more conversational work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins, journaling-style exchanges, or short coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum, practice skills in real life, and adapt therapy to changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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