About John
Rev. John Reid is a licensed counselor with 25 years of clinical experience who listens carefully and treats people without judgment. He emphasizes respect, patience, and steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns.
He welcomes conversations that begin where you are and build toward clearer next steps. He trained in counseling and earned a master’s degree in counseling in 1976. He has served in pastoral and leadership roles and spent decades working in mental health agencies, residential programs for teenage boys, and public schools in North Carolina.
Background and approach
That mix of church, community, and clinical settings informs his practical style. In sessions he focuses on what matters to the person in front of him. He uses client-centered methods to follow a person’s priorities and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
He also draws on dialectical skills to teach emotional regulation and coping tools for intense moments. He has worked with adults and children on a wide range of issues, including mood disorders, ADHD, self-esteem, anger, family and blended family difficulties, and divorce reactions. He also supports people coping with grief, trauma, and life transitions.
His approach is straightforward and grounded in long experience. Rev. Reid holds the Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential - LCMHC - in North Carolina.
He speaks English and has worked with clients across many countries. He aims to make therapy a collaborative process that fits each person’s goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Rev. John Reid uses client-centered methods that begin by listening and following a person's priorities. This approach helps identify the issues that matter most and shapes sessions around the goals the person brings. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thinking and build practical steps to change behavior and mood. These techniques are often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress management. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, contributes skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication during heated moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. He will discuss different methods and tailor them to a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning helps set clear, achievable steps and check progress along the way.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you keep face-to-face interaction from a distance. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing touchpoints between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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