About Benjamin
Dr. Benjamin Lough draws on existential-humanistic principles to support people navigating uncertainty and transitions.
Background and approach
He frames therapy as a chance to examine current life circumstances, relationships, and values, helping clients discover meaning and make deliberate choices. With 19 years of clinical work and an Illinois LCSW license, he centers presence and personal responsibility while guiding conversations that explore identity, purpose, and what feels missing.
In sessions he slows the pace to give space for reflection and honest inquiry, listening closely and posing questions that invite clarity. This approach is often applied when familiar coping strategies stop working or when major life changes prompt reevaluation.
Areas of focus include self-esteem, intimacy and relationship concerns, career shifts, and coaching around life direction, along with issues such as emptiness, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose, men's issues, midlife crisis, self-love, and sexuality. Dr.
Lough combines his years of experience with a collaborative stance that encourages clients to identify values and possibilities that align with their goals. The aim is to help people move from feeling stuck to recognizing options and acting with greater confidence and intention.
Existential Perspectives and Accessible Online Care
Existential Therapy focuses on questions of meaning, choice, and responsibility, helping people explore what feels true and important in their lives and how that shapes decisions and direction. This approach can be useful for those wrestling with uncertainty, life transitions, or questions of identity and purpose.In practice, Dr. Lough emphasizes slowing down to reflect on present circumstances, relationships, and values. Therapy becomes a collaborative effort to clarify goals and consider possibilities rather than prescribing fixed solutions. The therapist partners with each person to determine whether existential work or another compatible approach best fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy with this clinician is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules or to connect from different locations. These remote options provide flexibility around timing and communication style, and allow licensed professionals to support reflection, coaching, and practical planning without requiring in-person visits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English