About John
John Self is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 30 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the pain that follows loss. He aims to create a calm, practical space where clients can start small and build change over time.
He views each person as the expert on their own life and works alongside them. Sessions tend to combine talking with hands-on coping tools like grounding, relaxation, and simple mindful practices.
Background and approach
Practical exercises and short homework tasks are often used to build new habits between meetings. John has long experience supporting people facing addiction and those recovering from trauma. He also helps with relationship strain, parenting concerns, sleep disturbance, career stress, and the challenges of major life transitions.
His approach is flexible and adapts to what each person needs that week. Somatic ideas - paying attention to body sensations and how they connect with emotions - are part of his work when helpful. He also draws on methods from acceptance and commitment work and attachment-based thinking to help clients notice patterns and choose different responses.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged in multiple formats. The focus is on steady, achievable steps toward better daily functioning and more satisfying relationships.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people live by their values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It uses simple exercises to notice what matters and take small committed actions toward those values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of relating shape current connections and uses conversation to practice new, healthier ways of relating to others. Somatic ideas pay attention to bodily sensations and gentle grounding techniques, helping people link physical states with emotions and calm the nervous system in the moment.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try techniques, see what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This range lets people fit sessions around work, parenting, or health needs and practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to guide breathing, grounding, value-setting, and behavioral goals in ways that suit each person's life and schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English