John Howell, LMFT Licensed Marriage Family Therapist
If you are looking for excellent psychotherapy services in San Luis Obispo, CA, look for John Howell, LMFT. He aims to provide affordable, personalized, and high-quality health care solutions in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Helping individuals and families feel and live better is his specialty.
Through cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems, and nutritional therapy, he understands the emotional and health needs of his patients. He is also able to promote tranquility and good well-being by knowing how the mind, body, and mood of a person work together.
John Howell is certified by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and has years of experience in his specialization. Having master’s degrees in psychology and nutrition allows him to have a more comprehensive view of his clients’ concerns. With this, he works with them to restore a sense of balance and purpose in their lives and families.
His specialties include anxiety, depression, divorce, eating disorders, couples and family conflict, and addiction. He is also knowledgeable in the 12-step recovery program. With great sensitivity and respect, he ensures his clients that therapies are safe, compassionate places where they can let their guard down, process emotional pain, and put their lives back together.
John Howell bases his family therapy approach to researches made by John Gottman and Murray Bowen. He helps strengthen family ties by improving communication, resolving destructive emotions, and restoring trust and respect in relationships.
Achieving these goals is possible through cognitive behavioral counseling and family systems therapy. Using these approaches allows John Howell to highlight, examine, and eliminate the destructive and habitual ways of thinking and behaving, which leads to misunderstandings and arguments.
John Howell specializes in holistically treating resistant anxiety and depression, as well as binge eating disorder. He believes that more than psychotherapy, the value of nutrition and basic self-care should not be ignored especially when treating patients who have chronic mood disorders and/or eating addiction.