About Jose
Jose Baltazar is a licensed clinical social worker who practices in Illinois. He holds an LCSW and brings three years of professional clinical experience to his work. He aims to create an atmosphere where people feel heard and can begin to address anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns.
His approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. He listens first, then offers tools drawn from different methods to fit the person in front of him.
Background and approach
That can mean working on thought patterns, emotion regulation skills, or mindful awareness depending on the need. Jose uses client-centered methods to keep conversations grounded in the person's priorities. He also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills when emotion regulation is a central issue.
He incorporates relationship-focused work when intimacy or partnership concerns come up. He has experience with a broad range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, panic attacks, and issues tied to identity and multicultural stress. He also addresses family of origin problems, abandonment and attachment questions, and struggles around life purpose and midlife transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and take place online via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who want to begin can use the site matching process to find a scheduling option that works with their routine and commitments.
Online approaches that fit your life
Jose commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities so they feel understood and can set their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.He also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques when emotion regulation and strong reactions are present. DBT-style skills include strategies for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and practicing more effective interpersonal behavior. Together these approaches give a mix of validation, skills training, and problem-solving based on what a person needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That could mean trying CBT tools for anxiety, adding DBT skills for strong mood swings, or keeping the focus client-centered when someone mainly needs a listening space.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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