About Colby
Colby (CJ) Green is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and a wide range of life challenges. He works with individuals coping with relationship problems, anger, addiction, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, and career concerns. He brings 17 years of clinical experience to each conversation.
Colby adapts his approach to the person in front of him. He keeps sessions respectful and direct, mixing practical tools with time to talk through feelings.
Background and approach
He aims to be honest and straightforward while staying compassionate. His background includes work in both inpatient and outpatient settings. That experience shaped his ability to support people through crisis and slower, ongoing changes.
He has worked with adolescents and adults on behavior, mood, and interpersonal challenges. In sessions he combines several approaches to match a person’s needs. Methods include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Existential Therapy.
He uses these tools to help people build new skills and find clearer direction. Colby describes his role as guide, coach, teacher, and cheerleader. He offers practical strategies and a library of coping tools.
His focus is on creating a plan that changes as the person’s needs change.
How Colby blends proven approaches for online support
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration so the person sets goals and the therapist follows their lead; it helps when someone needs a safe space to sort through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying out different behaviors to reduce anxiety, manage mood, or change patterns that cause stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for intense emotions and relationship struggles.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. Colby will help figure out which tools fit a person's concerns and preferences, and then adapt the plan over time. He describes his role as guide and coach, and he adjusts methods as goals change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving and to use shorter formats for brief skill practice or urgent processing.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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