About John
John Horsley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and self-esteem concerns. He also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, sleep or eating problems, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. John works from Indiana and offers a steady, straightforward approach to difficult problems.
He believes the relationship between client and therapist is the foundation for change. John focuses on meeting people where they are and partnering with them through each step.
Background and approach
He uses clear tools and keeps conversations practical so people can try things between sessions. John has 18 years of experience working in different settings with a wide range of struggles. Much of his work has involved substance use and its complications, and he has helped many people who have experienced trauma and secondary trauma.
In sessions he combines goal-focused methods with trauma-informed care and motivational techniques. That means he will help set small goals, work on unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and address traumatic memories when that fits the client's needs. He adapts methods to the person rather than forcing a single style.
People can expect calm, direct conversation and a plan that emphasizes doable steps. John values honesty and respect and works to keep clients feeling seen and understood. He encourages collaboration so progress aligns with the client's own priorities.
Online approaches for trauma and behavior change
John uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as cornerstone approaches. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and addictive behaviors. EMDR works with traumatic memories using structured sets of attention and reflection to reduce distress linked to those memories, useful for post-traumatic stress and other trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your history, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and can change as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat works for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to use therapy alongside daily responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English