About John
John Sundeen is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with six years of experience. He practices in California and focuses on helping people who feel stuck, stressed, or overwhelmed. He frames therapy as a collaborative effort and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
He often works with concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, addiction struggles, and ADHD. He also helps people manage relationship strain, parenting challenges, family conflict, trauma and abuse, self-esteem issues, and big life transitions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify practical steps that fit each person's day-to-day life. John uses a mix of approaches rather than a single method. He draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to build present-moment awareness, and acceptance-based ideas to clarify personal values and committed action.
Those methods are adapted to what matters most to the person in front of him. In sessions he listens with a client-centered style and encourages small experiments between meetings. That might mean trying brief behavior changes, practicing grounding exercises, or testing new ways of talking about a problem.
Progress is built from repeated small moves, not sudden fixes. John emphasizes clear steps and realistic goals. He supports parents who are juggling responsibilities and people coping with life changes.
The work is practical, steady, and focused on what the client wants to change next.
How approach and format come together online
John draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take small committed steps toward what matters most, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on noticing patterns of thought and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. He also uses Mindfulness Therapy to build present-moment awareness and calm during stressful moments. These approaches are described in simple, actionable terms and aim to change day-to-day routines rather than rely on abstract ideas.Figuring out the right approach is part of the work. He will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time, so the plan stays practical and feels useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text supports quick check-ins and ongoing practice between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and try new strategies in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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