About Javier
Javier Gonzalez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who centers therapy on cultural understanding and practical skills. He speaks English and Spanish and brings eight years of clinical experience to work with people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship struggles. He aims to make sessions straightforward and relatable.
Javier draws on everyday language instead of clinical jargon. He focuses on what is happening now and on small steps people can try between visits.
Background and approach
Raised in Mexico and now based in California, his life story informs his practice. Growing up with poverty and exposure to community violence gave him firsthand insight into stress, survival, and the role of community. Those experiences shape how he listens and responds in sessions.
Javier uses a mix of approaches to fit each person. He often integrates acceptance and commitment ideas, mindfulness, cognitive tools, and client-centered listening. This allows him to address mood symptoms, addictive behaviors, and conflict in close relationships with practical methods and empathy.
In sessions he prioritizes clear goals and doable strategies. People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through parenting stresses, grief, intimacy concerns, or problems with alcohol and drugs. Javier helps people identify patterns, set reachable goals, and practice new habits outside of sessions.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and needs. Javier works with international clients as well and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings while taking action toward what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck when values and daily life feel out of sync. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors through small experiments. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with stress, mood, and cravings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they’ll try methods that match those goals and adjust over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing new skills together. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice skills between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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