Meet John

John is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who has been working with kids and families as a counselor since 2007, and as a clinician since 2019. He understands childhood from a kid and adult perspective. John help parents and kids understand each other better and improve their relationships. He focuses on teaching parents how to respond to the behaviors of hard-to-raise kids. John helps trauma survivors of all ages manage their reactions, painful memories, and triggers. John help kids and adults, from rough upbringings, make sense of their pain and learn ways to find new meaning and growth. He treats PTSD for people across the age and life experience spectrum. John’s approach is non-judgmental, normalizing and welcoming. He uses a lot of psychoeducation and somatic awareness to help clients hack their brains and bodies to break the cycle of negative thought and the effects of emotions on the body.

John uses the following modalities when offering therapy to clients: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Trauma Informed (TF)-CBT, narrative therapy, reality therapy, choice theory, psychoeducation, EMDR, memory work, cognitive reframing, artistic and play-based interventions. When asked what client’s can expect from him during sessions, he had the following to say:

Clients leave my sessions with a hook of some sort, or a skill to practice between sessions. Clients leave knowing a few things about the brain and the body, and how experience and emotion are stored within our physical forms. Clients take away from my sessions the assurance that most of their responses to their triggers are normal, and that they aren’t broken or diseased for having big feelings about things they didn’t choose.

On a personal note, John has a background in studio arts and used to make stuffed toys, draw all the time, and now runs a pottery studio (and about 4 locations sell my work). He is a Christian and has seen the truth of Biblical tenets illustrated in human suffering.