About Joni
Joni Obrecht is an Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 17 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her approach aims to make people feel heard and respected from the first visit.
Joni works with a broad range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addictions, parenting strain, and anger. She also addresses less common problems like chronic illness, body image, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward methods so clients can notice change between sessions. Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then helps set clear goals.
Joni draws on client-centered methods to keep the focus on each person’s needs and values. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. Dialectical behavior tools are available for people who need help with emotion regulation and coping skills.
Solution-focused methods help when someone wants quicker steps to move forward. Joni provides therapy by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so work and family schedules are easier to manage. She guides each person through choices about which format and methods will work best.
To begin, interested people follow the platform’s Start Therapy flow and complete a short questionnaire to match and schedule.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel respected and guides sessions around their priorities and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and stress. It teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for managing intense emotions and improving coping. It is useful for people who need skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods based on needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together until it fits the person's life and rhythm.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a shorter check-in during a break. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on useful, goal-oriented work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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