About Justen
Justen Gross is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with 20 years of professional experience. He helps people who feel stuck by listening, asking practical questions, and focusing on small, useful changes. He works with issues like anxiety, depression, stress, and trouble with intimacy or parenting.
His approach starts with understanding each person's story and strengths. He treats clients as the expert in their own life and builds on what already works for them.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to boost confidence, clarify goals, and reduce overwhelm through concrete steps. Justen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address relationship problems, low self-esteem, career frustrations, grief, and trauma. He pays attention to patterns like attachment, abandonment fears, codependency, and communication problems that often keep people stuck.
He also helps with anger, impulsivity, forgiveness, and the specific stresses caregivers and fathers face. Work may include coaching-style conversations alongside therapy to set goals and track progress. People who prefer clear, practical sessions find his style helpful.
He encourages small experiments between meetings so changes can be tested in everyday life. The aim is steady, manageable progress toward a more satisfying life.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Justen often uses evidence-based techniques that focus on current problems and workable solutions. One approach emphasizes skill-building to manage anxiety and stress through breathing, activity scheduling, and behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. This approach helps people with panic, chronic worry, and day-to-day stress management.Another common method looks at relationship patterns and attachment issues to improve communication and closeness. It helps people understand recurring dynamics like fear of abandonment, codependency, or commitment worries and then practice new, healthier responses in relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and what has or hasn’t worked before, and together they will try methods that fit the client's situation and preferences. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls are useful when face-to-face interaction matters, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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