About Froogh
Froogh Vakili-Khatibloo is a Licensed professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, depression, grief, and life changes. She offers a calm, accepting space for people to explore who they are and what they want next.
Froogh works from a harm reduction perspective when supporting people with alcohol and substance concerns. She uses motivational interviewing to help people set realistic goals and get unstuck.
Background and approach
That practical focus often pairs with cognitive behavioral tools to shift habits and reactions. Her approach also draws on somatic ideas and mindfulness to help clients notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. Emotionally-Focused techniques and interpersonal work are used to improve communication and resolve recurring conflict.
She teaches concrete skills for anger management, assertive communication, and coping with overwhelming feelings. Froogh supports career and employment issues, including job loss, workplace problems, career change, and applying for disability. She makes space for conversations about identity, size acceptance, and experiences of marginalization, and welcomes people from LGBT and diverse backgrounds.
Based in Ohio, she has long experience in community mental health and works with adults and couples. Froogh also provides clinical supervision and consultation to other mental health professionals and graduate students.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
The practice combines somatic work with acceptance and commitment strategies and client-centered care. Somatic work helps people notice bodily tension and physical cues linked to stress or trauma, which can aid grounding and regulation. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking steps that match those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s own pace and perspective, offering empathy and nonjudgmental listening as the foundation for change.Finding the right mix is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan as needed, balancing practical skills with body-awareness and emotional work.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, family, or mobility limits and allow continued contact between sessions when appropriate. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach breathing and grounding exercises, practice interpersonal skills, and guide behavior changes in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English, Persian