About Venus
Venus Tombakoglu is a licensed professional counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those who want clearer direction in their relationships and family life. Her approach centers on practical steps and recognizing each person’s strengths.
In sessions she focuses on building confidence and motivation. She helps people who struggle with low self-esteem, depression, or feelings of isolation. Conversations often cover communication problems and issues around control, with attention to everyday coping skills.
Background and approach
She invites clients to see themselves as experts in their own stories. The work is collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. Venus emphasizes small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Venus speaks English, Persian, and Turkish, and offers sessions to people inside and outside the United States. She holds an Ohio LPCC and has experience in different clinical settings across seven years of practice. To begin, she asks people to reflect on what matters most and what they want to change.
Then she helps set clear, achievable goals and checks progress along the way. This practical focus is designed to reduce anxiety and increase confidence in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Venus uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and strengthening personal resources. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for managing anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding. These techniques aim to reduce overwhelm and increase confidence in everyday situations.Another approach focuses on improving communication and relationships by practicing clear expression and boundary setting. Sessions use role-play and step-by-step rehearsals to try new ways of speaking and responding, which helps with repeated patterns that cause conflict or isolation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Venus will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as progress is made. The process is paced to what the client can handle and emphasizes small wins.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging allow for brief updates, reflection between sessions, and support when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English, Persian, Turkish
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