John Alilovich, LMFT
Calm, experienced therapist for relationship and life challenges
About John
John Alilovich is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a long career in California mental health services. He brings 40 years of practice experience and a steady, approachable manner to sessions. John focuses on helping people facing relationship struggles, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, and related life challenges.
He began his career working for a county mental health department, supporting children and families and addressing substance addiction, domestic violence, parenting concerns, and LGBTQ issues.
Background and approach
He also opened a independent practice and has continued seeing a wide range of clients over the decades. John’s style is warm and personal. He treats each person as the expert on their own life and aims to learn what matters most to them.
Together he and the client set clear, realistic goals and practical steps to move forward. In sessions John blends body-centered attention with talk work. He integrates Somatic approaches with therapies that focus on emotions, thoughts, and relationships.
He commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-informed ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to match what a person needs. He emphasizes sensitivity, respect, and practical problem-solving. People who come to him can expect calm guidance, straightforward tools for coping, and steady support while they work toward clearer relationships and a more balanced life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
This therapist commonly uses Somatic-informed work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice how their body and actions connect to feelings and values. Somatic approaches invite gentle attention to bodily sensations to reduce tension and support regulation, while ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them despite difficult thoughts or feelings.He also draws on Attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections. That approach helps people understand repeated patterns, improve emotional contact, and build safer ways of relating. Choosing the right mix of methods is collaborative; the therapist will discuss options, try things out, and adjust the approach based on what feels most helpful to each person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more convenient. These formats offer more scheduling flexibility and let people work on relationship and emotional concerns from home or while traveling. The therapist uses these options to keep continuity of care and to tailor session styles to a person’s needs and life circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English