Joni Obrecht , LPCC

Joni Obrecht is an Ohio-licensed professional counselor (LPCC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and challenges related to parenting and caregiving.

Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental. She aims to create a calm space where clients can talk through what is most worrying them and start to try practical changes. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Joni uses a mix of methods to match the issue and the person. She draws on client-centered work to build trust, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, and dialectical skills for managing strong emotions. Solution-focused ideas are used to set small, doable goals that move things forward.

She has helped people facing addiction, bipolar disorder, anger and impulse control, body-image concerns, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and complicated grief. Joni also supports people dealing with abandonment wounds, blended family issues, and communication or codependency problems.

Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Joni aims to meet people where they are and to tailor sessions so progress feels realistic and sustainable.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping people feel understood; online sessions using this approach prioritize building a trusting conversation and exploring what matters most to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out small behavior changes, which works well in video or phone sessions where homework and real-life experiments can be assigned and reviewed. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that can be practiced between sessions and reinforced through text check-ins or live chat.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joni treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help people decide which tools to try based on goals, symptoms, and daily life demands. It is common to combine elements from different approaches so treatment fits the person rather than forcing one model.

Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier access from different places. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps with ongoing reminders or brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, family, and caregiving routines.