About Benjamin
Benjamin (Ben) Keplar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Indiana. He offers a calm, respectful way of working that starts with listening. Ben focuses on what each person needs and moves at a pace that feels right for them.
Ben uses straightforward methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. He also helps people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and relationship or family problems.
Background and approach
His work includes support for parenting challenges, career stress, and issues related to sexual expression such as BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture. Sessions emphasize practical skills and clear goals. Ben draws on client-centered ways of working and tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
He mixes mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people stay grounded and find their own motivation to change. Ben has five years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - and has spent much of his career in mental health and addictions settings.
That background informs how he supports people with co-occurring concerns, chronic illness or pain, and caregiver stress. He approaches each person without judgment and avoids labels that shame. The work focuses on small steps that produce real differences in day-to-day life.
Ben aims to help people build coping skills, manage impulses, and improve communication so they can move toward clearer goals and greater stability.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. It prioritizes respect, empathy, and collaboration so the person sets the pace and goals for change. This approach works well for issues like stress, grief, and relationship concerns where feeling heard matters.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at specific thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, cravings, and impulsivity. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative planning helps make sessions useful from the start and keeps work focused on what the client wants to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and teaching skills, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports short reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments while still using the same therapeutic tools described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English