Froogh Vakili-Khatibloo, LPCC

Froogh Vakili-Khatibloo is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with more than 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy, counseling, and harm reduction services to adolescents and adults in Ohio and beyond. She draws on decades of community mental health work to offer practical, compassionate support for individuals and couples navigating life transitions, mood concerns, substance use challenges, relationship issues, and a wide range of emotional struggles.

Working from a harm reduction perspective, she meets people where they are and helps them set realistic goals for change around alcohol and substance use. Her clinical approach combines cognitive behavioral techniques, interpersonal methods, and mindfulness practices to address depression, anxiety, and mood disorders while exploring underlying causes of distress. For clients recovering from trauma and loss, she emphasizes resilience and healing, and she applies motivational interviewing to help people overcome stuck patterns and pursue meaningful change.

Froogh also supports career and employment concerns, including recovery from job loss, career transitions, workplace difficulties, disability applications, and creative blocks. She offers an accepting space for identity exploration and interpersonal skill-building, teaching coping tools, anger management, conflict resolution, and assertive communication. She welcomes clients from diverse and marginalized communities, including LGBT individuals, people interested in size acceptance, and people of color. In addition to clinical work, she provides supervision for unlicensed mental health professionals and graduate students, and consultation for peers. Froogh maintains participation on multiple insurance panels as well as EAP plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Bureau of Workers Compensation, and she is open to working with international clients.

Therapeutic Approaches Online and How They Help

Froogh often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns, develop practical coping skills, and build self-awareness in a supportive, nonjudgmental environment. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation while client-centered work supports identity exploration and personal growth by prioritizing the client’s experience and goals.

For trauma-related concerns she uses EMDR to support processing of distressing memories and to reduce the emotional charge associated with those experiences. EMDR is commonly used with trauma and abuse survivors to help integrate difficult memories and promote adaptive healing.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Froogh works with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time to reflect progress and changing priorities.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone appointments, live chats, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access licensed professionals from different locations, balance therapy with work or family commitments, and maintain continuity of care during life transitions and busy periods.