About Joshua
Joshua (Josh) Phelps is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Wyoming. He focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, parenting challenges, and attention concerns. Josh emphasizes a respectful, person-first approach and treats each client as the expert on their own life.
Josh practices in a way that centers the person's goals. He uses clear, practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to break down overwhelming thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
He also draws on client-centered skills to listen closely and follow what matters most to the individual. Mindfulness practices are part of his toolkit, teaching simple ways to reduce reactivity and bring attention back into the present moment. Josh also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for times of high upset.
Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from painful stories and notice strengths they may have missed. With eight years of experience, Josh has helped people work through mood shifts, impulsivity, and symptoms that follow traumatic events. He aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, focusing on small changes that add up.
Josh values collaboration and matches techniques to the person's pace and needs. People who choose to work with Josh can expect steady, clear guidance and practical tools for daily life. He encourages clients to try small steps between sessions and to notice progress, even when change feels slow.
How Josh’s approaches work online
Joshua blends cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices into online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to lower reactivity and help people notice their feelings without getting swept away.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Josh listens to a person’s goals and tries methods together to see what fits best. He adjusts the mix of CBT, mindfulness, and other tools based on progress and preferences so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins or skill practice into a busy day. These options give flexibility for scheduling and different ways to use therapeutic tools between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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