- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LISW
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Haven
Haven Ohly is a licensed independent social worker with 20 years of experience. He focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by parenting, stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and life changes. His style is compassionate and direct.
He aims to help parents get through hard moments and find clearer ways forward. Haven emphasizes trauma-informed work and often uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, mindfulness strategies, and cognitive behavioral techniques.
Background and approach
He balances structured tools with time to talk through personal history. Sessions mix skills practice, feeling work, and planning for everyday challenges. He brings professional experience from clinical leadership in substance use disorder treatment and personal experience in recovery.
That combination informs how he talks about relapse risk, cravings, and supports people rebuilding routines. He also makes space for spirituality when clients want that included. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Haven understands how environment and systemic pressures shape family life and parenting.
He pays attention to how caregiving, chronic stress, and grief affect daily functioning. He also helps with issues like attachment, blended family dynamics, and communication problems. Therapy with him includes short-term coping strategies and longer-term work on patterns that cause repeated problems.
He uses plain language and practical steps so parents can try new approaches between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online or by phone.
What Haven works with
Everything Haven lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Haven helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Haven lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online parenting and trauma work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room. It emphasizes listening, empathy, and building on what already helps you. This approach suits parents who want a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical actions. It is commonly used for anxiety, mood, and stress related to parenting and daily life. EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - is a trauma-informed method that can help reduce the intensity of distressing memories and reactions connected to past events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean starting with skills-based CBT, building safety and grounding, and introducing EMDR later if it fits the client’s pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or comfort on camera is an issue, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy parenting schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
Questions people ask about Haven
What concerns does this therapist help with?
Haven addresses a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, parenting concerns, grief, intimacy and relationship struggles, sleep and eating issues, anger, and self-esteem.
How would you describe his therapeutic approach?
He uses a trauma-informed, client-centered style with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and EMDR when appropriate.
What kind of background does he bring to sessions?
He has 20 years of practice experience and work as a clinical director at a substance use disorder treatment center, alongside lived experience in recovery.
Where is he licensed and based?
He is an LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker - practicing in Ohio.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with him?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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