John Molden, LCSW, CSW

John Molden is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Georgia with 18 years of professional experience. He works with adults who are feeling stuck after changes in work, relationships, health, or life stage. His focus areas include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career questions, addictions, grief, anger, depression, and life purpose.

He uses straightforward conversation to help people clarify what matters next. Sessions look at practical steps, coping skills, and patterns that get in the way of decisions. He blends tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to address unhelpful thinking and identify values that guide choices.

Attachment-based ideas help him attend to how relationships shape current struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills and client-centered practices add emotion regulation and space to reflect. Together these approaches give a mix of skills, values work, and reflective listening.

John has worked across individual challenges that include caregiving stress, adoption and foster care issues, cancer-related concerns, and recovery from substance use. He also addresses men’s issues, midlife questions, prejudice and discrimination impacts, and seasonal affective concerns. He lists life purpose as a focus for people who want to reorient their next steps.

He communicates plainly and adjusts pacing based on where a person is in the process. The usual early work looks at immediate coping and small behavioral experiments. Later work can move toward longer term patterns and decision-making support.

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