About John
John Dinauer is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. He practices in Illinois and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people feeling overwhelmed. He focuses on everyday problems like isolation, communication breakdowns, and major life transitions.
He also supports people facing chronic health challenges, midlife shifts, and issues around aging. His work includes helping clients with process addictions, drug and alcohol concerns, and sexual behavior problems.
Background and approach
John offers an affirming approach for people in the LGBT community and for men working through identity, relationships, or life purpose questions. Sessions are framed around the client’s goals and paced to fit their needs. He emphasizes building coping skills, clearer communication, and realistic steps forward.
In the room he keeps language plain and direct. He listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different ways of handling stress. Sessions can include short-term problem solving and longer work on lasting change depending on what a person wants.
His background blends long clinical experience with attention to real-life demands. People meet practical strategies, straightforward feedback, and an aim to restore day-to-day functioning. The goal is to leave therapy with tools to manage anxiety and move through difficult transitions with more confidence.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Care
John uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach involves skills training for managing anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-reframing techniques that people can use day to day. These methods aim to reduce anxious symptoms and improve coping in stressful situations.Another approach emphasizes behavioral change work for addiction and compulsive behaviors. This involves identifying triggers, building alternative routines, and setting small, achievable goals to reduce harmful patterns. The work is concrete and goal-oriented, suited to people looking to regain control over habits that cause problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This is a collaborative process focused on what you want to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be good for brief check-ins or when you prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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