Hope Striving

Hope Striving is an Ohio LPCC with 16 years of clinical experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and questions about life purpose. Hope works with LGBT clients and those managing ADHD, and also supports people dealing with midlife change, isolation, and chronic illness. Sessions focus on practical steps rather than vague promises.

Hope uses person-centered and trauma-informed ideas alongside evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide sessions. In practice this means clear conversations about what feels most urgent, experimenting with small changes, and tracking what helps. Hope pays attention to identity and lived experience, and supports people exploring gender dysphoria and aspects of sexual orientation and identity.

People come for help with panic and anxiety, obsessive thoughts, mood disorders, and the fallout from relationship endings. Hope also addresses communication problems, codependency, control issues, and the emotional effects of chronic pain or illness. Work often includes practical skills for managing symptoms and rebuilding daily routines.

Sessions also focus on decisions about work, purpose, and the sense of direction many people feel stuck on in midlife. Hope helps clients weigh options, clarify values, and test small changes before committing to bigger moves. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

Hope provides services in English to people located in Ohio. International clients are not accepted. The practice uses a subscription payment model that can be canceled at any time, and clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling their first session.

How Hope uses evidence-based techniques in online care

Hope draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside person-centered and trauma-informed practice. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms; this can help with panic, obsessive thinking, and low mood. Behavioral strategies emphasize routines, activity scheduling, and small goal setting to rebuild daily structure when depression or chronic illness limits energy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hope collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their concerns, goals, and preferences. That means trying a technique for a few sessions, checking whether it helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than committing to a single path up front.

Confirm the current session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online formats. Many people find remote sessions easier to fit into workdays and family life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time for those managing chronic pain. If technology or camera use is a concern, discuss options during the matching process so sessions can be arranged in a way that fits daily life.