About Benjamin
Benjamin (Ben) Keplar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana. He centers sessions on respect, listening, and collaboration so clients set the pace and goals. Ben aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Ben draws on five years of professional experience in social work and mental health. He has worked with people facing addiction, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and housing instability.
Background and approach
That background informs his practical focus in sessions and his interest in real-life problems like work stress, parenting strain, and grief. His approach mixes client-centered care with skills-based methods. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices help with emotion regulation and staying grounded in difficult moments. Motivational Interviewing is part of Ben's style when someone is weighing change or feeling stuck. He also uses solution-focused strategies to break big problems into achievable steps.
Sessions emphasize clear goals, small experiments, and steady progress. People meet Ben for a practical, team-oriented approach. He avoids shaming language and does not label people by past choices.
Instead, he helps clients sort priorities, manage impulses, and rebuild routines that support daily functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s priorities first. In practice this means the therapist listens, follows your pace, and helps you set goals that matter. That approach fits issues like relationship strain, grief, or feeling overwhelmed because sessions focus on what you want to change rather than a one-size plan.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Online sessions use short exercises and homework to gradually change patterns that drive anxiety, low mood, or impulsive behaviors. This makes it useful for stress, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotional regulation and distress tolerance. In an online setting clients learn concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and reducing impulsivity through practiced steps and brief coaching during sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then they try a plan and adjust it as needed in a collaborative way.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and practice with skills. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions, share brief updates, or get short guidance without a full appointment. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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