About John
John Swearengin is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 40 years of experience practicing in Arizona. He focuses on helping people who face addictions, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress. He also assists with career concerns, self-esteem, motivation, and parenting challenges.
John aims to meet people where they are and offers practical, respectful support. John emphasizes a compassionate, person-centered approach. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs instead of a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
He blends talk-based methods with body-aware work to address how stress and trauma show up in daily life. Clients can expect clear goals and straightforward strategies. He uses tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches to help manage thoughts, mood, and behavior.
Skills may include noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, learning grounding exercises, and building routines that support sleep and recovery. Somatic techniques are included to help people reconnect with sensations and reduce physical tension tied to past events. Dialectical behavior ideas may be used to develop emotion regulation and communication skills when relationships or intense feelings are a concern.
John describes therapy as a collaborative process. He listens first, then develops a plan with you. The work can address many issues from grief and intimacy-related struggles to ADHD and substance use.
Sessions are offered in ways that fit modern life, including video, phone, chat, and messaging.
How online sessions use somatic and evidence-based methods
John blends somatic work with client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. Somatic Therapy focuses on how stress and trauma live in the body and uses simple awareness and grounding exercises to reduce tension and reactivity. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and building a supportive relationship so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors, offering clear steps to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and functioning.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and comfort level. That means trying different tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online formats make it possible to use these approaches from home or another convenient place. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions offer flexibility when video isn’t practical. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives while keeping focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English