About Justin
Justin Salcedo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on helping people reduce suffering and live more meaningful lives. He brings seven years of counseling experience and an emphasis on building a strong working relationship with each person. He aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people feel heard and supported as they work toward their goals.
He uses practical, evidence-based methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques to find what drives someone’s distress.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing new skills, and choosing actions that match personal values. Mindfulness and dialectical skills are used to increase emotional regulation and tolerance for difficult feelings. Justin’s background includes university counseling, work in a psychiatric hospital, treating substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns, teaching at the university level, supervising other therapists, and independent practice work.
That variety informs his work with depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, mood issues, grief, relationship stress, and ADHD. In therapy he collaborates with each person to individualize a plan. He looks for underlying patterns that contribute to problems and helps people build habits that move them toward what matters.
The approach is practical and goal-oriented, while staying rooted in empathic listening. People who choose him can expect straightforward talk, skills to manage symptoms, and support for making value-driven changes. He encourages prospective clients to consider fit and trust when choosing a counselor.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what they value and take steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It uses practical exercises to build psychological flexibility and can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. It is concrete and skill-based, often used for anxiety, mood problems, and coping with stress. Mindfulness methods teach present-moment attention and distress tolerance to reduce reactivity and increase awareness.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick and adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds in sessions. Together they will try strategies, check progress, and adjust the plan if needed.
Online sessions can fit many schedules and life demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send shorter updates, check in between sessions, or access support without scheduling a full call. These options provide flexibility to use different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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