About John
John Trainer is a licensed professional counselor with the Tennessee LPC-MHSP credential and 38 years of experience. He focuses on anxiety and related concerns and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. He helps with depression, addictions, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
Sessions cover everyday problems like stress, sleep difficulties, parenting strain, relationship issues, grief, and coping after trauma or loss. He also addresses challenges such as anger, career struggles, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
John uses a client-centered style that prioritizes the person's goals and pace. He draws on motivational interviewing to help people find inner reasons to change. Hypnotherapy is also offered as a tool to access focused attention for habits and stress management.
In sessions he listens for practical patterns and works with clients to set small, achievable steps. Conversations often break problems into manageable parts and build on what already works in someone’s life. He can include faith perspectives when a person requests that approach.
Practice is located in Tennessee and sessions are offered in English. John has spent decades helping people face complex emotions and life shifts, and he brings that long experience to each conversation.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s priorities first. In practice this means conversations focus on what matters most to the client and moves at a comfortable pace. It helps with anxiety, low mood, relationship strain, and coping with life changes.Motivational Interviewing is a short-term, goal-focused method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It works well for addictions, habit change, and when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about next steps.
Hypnotherapy offers guided focus and relaxation to work on habits, stress, and sleep patterns. It is presented as one tool among others and can be tried when a client and therapist agree it might help.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as needed based on progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can fit into a busy day and use less bandwidth, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to match sessions to someone’s schedule, energy level, and communication needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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