About Joshua
Joshua Heying is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, along with depression, relationship strain, and challenges related to trauma and grief. Joshua uses practical, down-to-earth methods so clients can make changes that matter in daily life.
He has eight years of professional experience working across community mental health and clinical settings. That background included roles in crisis intervention, residential treatment, and school-based counseling.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a straightforward style that aims to reduce overwhelm and improve coping skills. Joshua blends several therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices.
In sessions he focuses on clear skills, values-based choices, and problem-solving that people can try between meetings. He also addresses a wide range of concerns such as addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, intimacy and sexual identity issues, body image, and parenting stress.
Joshua pays attention to how symptoms affect everyday routines like sleep, work, and relationships, and works to make small changes that add up. People who choose Joshua can expect collaborative care that centers their goals. He invites clients to name what matters, then builds a plan that fits their life and pace.
The aim is steady progress toward more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxious or depressed patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can help with relationship conflict and intense mood swings.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Joshua will work with each person to pick methods that suit their goals, habits, and preferences. Therapy plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, with new techniques introduced at a manageable pace.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging support brief check-ins and ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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