About Doug
Doug Casper is a licensed professional counselor with 27 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and big life changes. He works with clients who feel overwhelmed by relationships, work pressures, parenting, addiction, or loss. Doug speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try right away.
He frames therapy as a collaborative process. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client and finding ways to act on those values.
Background and approach
Doug uses methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and move toward clearer goals. His approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavior ideas, client-centered listening, solution-focused planning, and trauma-informed care. That mix is used to address things like low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and grief.
He also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and fatherhood questions. Doug draws on decades of practice to tailor pacing and techniques to each person. He often helps clients break problems into manageable steps and practice small changes between sessions.
He aims to make sessions straightforward, with tools people can use in daily life. Based in Ohio, Doug holds LPCC and LPC credentials for work in this region. Sessions are offered in English and available through several online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify personal values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning; it suits concerns like anxiety, mood problems, and coping with stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they’ll try techniques and adjust the plan so the methods fit the person’s life and make sense for their situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video can support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins during a break, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different routines and communication styles.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan
- Languages
- English