About Joseph
Joseph Youngblood is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing from North Carolina. He has 33 years of clinical experience and aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or struggles with substance use. He speaks English and brings a calm, steady presence to conversations about difficult topics.
Joseph uses straightforward, practical work in sessions. He draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, mindfulness, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
These methods help people notice unhelpful thinking, build small habits, and make values-based choices during hard times. His background includes long clinical experience in the United States, Europe, and Asia and a past career in the U.S. Navy.
That history gives him familiarity with life transitions, caregiving stress, and the strains that come with changing roles and environments. He also has lived experience in recovery, which informs his perspective on addiction and relapse prevention. In a typical session he listens, helps clarify what matters to the client, and works with them to try specific steps between meetings.
He supports work on relationships, communication problems, codependency, anger, sleep or eating issues, and coping with chronic illness or pain. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Joseph works with adults seeking help for a wide range of concerns and uses a subscription-based scheduling model that can be canceled at any time.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. Mindfulness-based work trains attention so people can respond more calmly to strong emotions and cravings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try a few methods, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients often find that mixing skills from different approaches fits their life better than a single method on its own.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. This range lets clients pick the format that matches their schedule and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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