Our Therapists

Eric Riesterer, M.A., LPC, Therapist and Founder

Dependently-Licensed Professional Counselor under the Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage, Family Therapist Board in the State of Ohio.

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Sliding-Fee Scale Offered for Non-Insurance

(CVMindfulHealthandWellness@Outlook.com)

(Business Line: (440) 294-8068)

Eric Riesterer is a licensed professional counselor and is pursuing his licensed professional clinical counseling license in Jefferson Ohio. He also sees clients via online therapy using Doxy.me, a HIPAA-compliant and confidential telehealth software. Eric also provides non-clinical Life Coaching Services to help individuals find balance, satisfaction and meaning in their lives. Eric is presently supervised via Group Supervision and Work Supervision by Wendy Nathan, LPCC-S. 

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Eric completed his Master’s in Counseling and Human Developmental Therapy at Walsh University. His experience in counseling psychotherapy began in 2019 through Non-Profit work in the Canton and North Canton communities through Commquest Services, Walsh University’s Fr. Herttna Counseling Center and school-based psychotherapy services through Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health at GlenOak HS/MS and Plain Elementary school. Transitioning to Private Practice, he has 4.5 years of experience focused on helping clients with anxiety, depression, trauma treatment, family counseling, child/adolescent counseling and boy’s/men’s issues throughout Northeastern Ohio.

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Eric is here to teach you psychoeducational skills to take control of your mental health while alongside you in processing life's stressors and traumas. His scope of practice includes working with clients of all ages and as young as 4 trained in play therapy, trauma counseling, mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, rational-emotive behavioral therapies to assist you/your family with adjustment to new situations, anxiety/performance anxiety, depression, family issues, socialization, stress management & coping resiliency, boy's and men's issues, school issues, military issues, finding balance, purpose and meaning, and sport's counseling.

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Eric believes that counseling is an empowering experience that allows you to take charge of your own mental health with his guidance from life experiences and education alongside you in a journey to wellness.

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Eric's specialties include working with adjustment disorders, anxiety, depression, grief and bereavement, trauma treatment, relationship issues, school-performance, boy's/men's issues, family counseling and assisting in the exploration of balance within your life.

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Eric enjoys working with patients at critical points of their lives such as childhood, adolescence, midlife and retirement where patients experience the highest levels of growth. He believes that his unique experiences help relay complicated clinical theory to address your needs in therapy and Life Coaching.

 

Eric's experience outside of counseling includes several years of collegiate athletics and a post-collegiate athletic marathon career with a proven track record in reducing performance anxiety and stressors associated with the high pressures of elite athletics and competition.

 

Eric has worked with several school districts as a Track & Field/Cross-Country Coach in Hudson, Louisville, Burton, and Jefferson and many of his athletes have found his clinically psychological approach to athletics helps ground them in the moment and move towards peak performance and enjoyment in sport through a focus on mindfulness, purpose and meaning. Eric also understands that stressors of our military members with 6 years of experience in the US Army Reserves working in petroleum/oil engineering, transportation and tactical-environment setup of oil/gas systems.

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Eric has personal experience from his Army Reserves career adjusting to and managing many of the stressors associated with military service and he understands the problems and turbulence that service members face as a professional peer able to help you move forward with your mental health and finding peace and balance in daily living.