About John
John Doran is a licensed social worker in Florida with 40 years of experience. He brings long-term practice to moments when people feel stuck by stress, addiction, trauma, or intense emotions. He frames the client as the expert in their own story and offers steady support through change.
He helps people cope with anxiety, depression, grief, and bipolar challenges using straightforward conversation and practical strategies. He also addresses anger, family concerns, and the fallout from abuse or traumatic events.
Background and approach
When relationship hurts, betrayal, or separation come up, he focuses on what a person needs next. His work blends several approaches so sessions can be tailored to the moment. He uses client-centered work to follow a person’s goals, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful patterns, and EMDR when trauma memories need a different route.
He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at repeated life patterns and Imago relationship ideas for healing connection issues. John integrates his Christian faith into counseling when clients request that perspective. He treats faith as one resource among others and follows the client’s lead on how it fits into treatment.
He aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can name hard things and try new ways of coping. People who reach out can expect clear talk, practical exercises, and a steady guide through ups and downs. He works in English and accepts international clients, offering flexible ways to meet by phone, video, chat, or text messaging.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy places the person’s goals and experience at the center. The therapist listens carefully and follows what matters most to the client, which works well over video or text. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear exercises and short assignments between sessions. This approach is easy to use in phone or video sessions and in written chat work. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps reduce the hold of traumatic memories through a structured process; some parts of EMDR adapt to video or guided eye movements during online sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try. This decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new issues appear.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls let you work face to face without travel. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, ongoing reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options create flexibility so therapy can fit into busy days and different life situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English