Dr. K. Joseph "Joe" Wittemann, LPC

Dr. K. Joseph "Joe" Wittemann is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with more than 40 years of experience helping people navigate addiction, relationships, loss, career change, and a wide range of life challenges. As an immigrant who has experienced displacement and assimilation, and as someone who has been a single parent and later remarried, he brings personal insight into the stresses of family transition, separation, and rebuilding. He has also undergone career change himself and knows the uncertainty and opportunity that come with major life shifts.

His early career spanned nearly 25 years in teaching and work with students, during which he helped establish the Teen Institute on Alcohol and Drugs in Ohio. That involvement led to four decades of work with adults in addiction recovery, a commitment he continues today. In a subsequent career he supported organizations and industries through major change initiatives, assisting individuals facing forced separation, transfer, and loss, and mentoring leaders through difficult transitions. He also serves as a consultant to a crisis response group that assists companies experiencing workforce disruption.

He approaches counseling as a collaborative, pragmatic process focused on education, goal setting, cognitive processing, and mindfulness. He believes people generally know what is beneficial for them and works to clarify thought patterns that influence behavior. He attends to how brain chemistry and stress responses contribute to difficulties and teaches practical ways to manage them. Sessions are typically scheduled for 45 to 60 minutes to allow fuller exploration of concerns and work toward resolution.