About Justin
Justin Bayles is a Texas Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on stress and anxiety. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck in patterns, or facing big life changes. Justin uses a strengths-based style that aims to make therapy useful and practical from the first session.
He brings four years of LPC practice in community mental health settings. His past roles included psychosocial rehabilitation, counseling, and director of clinical services.
Background and approach
Those experiences shaped a practical, hands-on way of working with people who have depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and relationship concerns. Justin favors a holistic and integrative approach. Sessions are adapted to what a person brings and the goals they want to reach.
Techniques drawn from cognitive behavior therapy and motivational interviewing are mixed with narrative and reality-oriented methods to keep sessions active and goal-focused. He also uses illness management and recovery strategies and elements of Seeking Safety when trauma or substance-related issues are present. That mix is intended to help people build coping skills, manage symptoms, and make concrete changes in daily life.
He pays attention to strengths and practical next steps. Sessions aim to be collaborative and concrete. Justin works with people on grief, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related stress.
His goal is to help people leave sessions with clear actions and more confidence in handling the day ahead.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Justin uses cognitive behavior therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. He also applies motivational interviewing, a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons for change and build motivation to take concrete steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will match techniques to a person’s goals, needs, and pace, and adjust methods as progress is made. The process is collaborative and focused on what works in daily life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for fuller conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or use less bandwidth, live chat allows short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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