About John
John Bensinger, LCMHC, LPC, brings a calm, person-focused approach to therapy. He emphasizes listening first and helping each person use their own strengths to address stress and anxiety. He speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
He works from a client-centered stance, which means sessions begin with the individual’s goals and experiences. He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to build awareness and reduce reactivity in daily life. Across a long career, he has supported people dealing with addiction, trauma, anger, grief, sleep and eating concerns, and mood differences such as depression and bipolar. He also helps with life transitions, career stress, caregiving strain, and relationship or communication problems.
He lists attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and compassion fatigue among other focus areas. John holds licensure in North Carolina and Pennsylvania and has worked in clinical settings for four decades. He uses straightforward language in sessions and encourages clients to set goals they find meaningful.
He believes practical steps and steady progress matter more than quick fixes. Sessions include talking through current problems, learning concrete skills, and practicing new habits between meetings. He offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect, and sessions are organized to fit each person’s schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and goals. Sessions begin by listening closely and building on the client’s strengths to set practical goals and decide what to work on together.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts, change behaviors, and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through breathing and noticing exercises. It helps reduce reactivity, improve sleep, and make it easier to handle strong emotions.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try small techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The focus is on finding a method that fits the client’s needs and preferences rather than imposing a single way of working.
Online sessions make it possible to meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people maintain face-to-face conversation and work through body language. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can help with quick questions, brief check-ins, or for people who prefer writing. These options allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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