About Joseph
Joseph Rifici is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 14 years of experience. He focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, or changes in life. He approaches sessions with a warm, down-to-earth manner and works to make therapy understandable and useful.
He trained at The Ohio State University and earned a Master of Arts in Education for Community Counseling from the University of Akron.
Background and approach
Early in his career he provided individual and group therapy in a residential addiction treatment center. That work included crisis intervention, brief family therapy, and case management for adults with chemical dependency and co-occurring concerns. Later he took on supervisory and administrative duties as assistant clinical director, guiding teams and coordinating admissions and discharges.
He has completed focused training in trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and addiction treatment, and received advanced training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy from the Beck Institute. In recent years he has provided services in personal settings for adults with a broad range of mental health issues. He uses Cognitive Behavioral approaches combined with client-centered and mindfulness-influenced ideas, tailoring techniques to each person's needs.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. He aims to help people develop coping skills, reduce anxious thinking, manage impulses, and repair important relationships. Outside work he enjoys reading, hiking, music, time with family and friends, and his cat Charlie.
Online approaches that focus on skills and values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, then clarify personal values to guide action. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and feeling stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and impulse control issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joseph will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That means starting with what matters to you, trying tools, and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let you use visual cues for conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still focusing on building skills and coping strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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