About John
John Jaksich is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and career transitions. He focuses on practical steps people can use right away. His style is calm and straightforward, aimed at creating space to talk and try new ways of responding to problems.
John has 15 years of experience working with adults facing a wide range of concerns. He supports people dealing with chronic pain or illness, issues around aging, blended family challenges, and the effects of divorce or separation.
Background and approach
He also addresses difficulties such as codependency, commitment or control problems, communication breakdowns, and struggles after infidelity. Sessions emphasize finding clear, manageable strategies for daily life. He helps people build coping plans for panic or social anxiety, manage mood changes, and navigate career decisions.
Conversations also cover substance use, first responder stress, fatherhood challenges, and feelings of guilt or shame. John draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s situation. He aims to make therapy a collaborative process - identifying goals, testing ideas, and measuring what helps.
The focus is on skills people can use between sessions to reduce distress and improve functioning. John practices in Arizona and works in English. He offers several online options so people can pick the format that fits their life and schedule.
How evidence-based methods work in online therapy
John uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear skills and real-world practice. One approach emphasizes structured problem-solving and coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage panic by breaking problems into small, testable steps. Another approach focuses on mood and behavior - identifying unhelpful patterns and trying different actions to lift mood and increase motivation. These techniques help with stress, anxiety, depression, and everyday relationship or career decisions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist check progress together and change course when needed so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people have more face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, skill practice, or when someone prefers typing over speaking. These formats make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules and help maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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