About Joshua
Joshua Cook is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with ten years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and ADHD. Joshua adopts a warm, respectful style and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical.
Clients can expect a conversational approach. He listens first and then helps people identify small, useful steps to try between sessions. He avoids stigmatizing labels and treats problems as things a person is living with, not as their identity.
Background and approach
Joshua uses methods drawn from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas to address thoughts and habits that get in the way. He also draws on emotionally-focused and relationship-based methods when conversations turn to intimacy or family patterns. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change or facing addictions.
Sessions often focus on solving day-to-day problems such as sleep troubles, anger, communication breakdowns, or parenting stress. Joshua helps people build coping skills, plan for life changes, and manage mood shifts like depression or bipolar struggles. He also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Joshua asks new clients to complete a short questionnaire so he can match goals and plan a path forward together.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy centers on listening and building on what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting that fits their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and ADHD-related habits. Emotionally-focused methods focus on how people experience and express emotions in close relationships, helping when intimacy or family dynamics are the focus.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Joshua collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than using one fixed method. That means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan if needed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or check in on small challenges. These options make it easier to fit help into a busy schedule and to continue momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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