About John
John Hammerle is a Licensed Professional Counselor with ten years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addiction, and handle relationship and anger concerns. He also provides support for depression and related mood challenges.
He aims to make sessions straightforward and down-to-earth. John invites open conversation and listens for the practical problems behind the feelings. He helps people name what’s happening and figure out small, doable steps forward.
Background and approach
In sessions he mixes practical strategies with exploration of values and meaning. That can include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing new ways to respond to strong emotions, and setting goals that match what matters most to someone. The work is collaborative - the person and the therapist decide what feels useful.
John has spent a decade working in settings that involve addiction care and mood concerns, so he is familiar with how those issues overlap. He pays attention to family of origin patterns, communication problems, and challenges that crop up during major life transitions like midlife questions and fatherhood stress.
People who reach out can expect clear, steady guidance and an emphasis on practical tools. John aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions and to support lasting behavior change.
Approaches that translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help people who feel stuck by connecting everyday choices to what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, stress, and mood challenges by offering concrete skills to test and change thinking habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for managing strong emotions and impulsive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change over time as the relationship and the person's priorities evolve.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be used when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility while keeping the therapeutic focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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