About Justin
Justin Colwell is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. He also supports people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. He approaches each person with respect and compassion.
He works collaboratively to shape conversations and plans around what matters to each person. Sessions focus on real-life coping skills, clearer communication, and small steps that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Justin emphasizes practical tools and steady support rather than quick fixes. His practice pays attention to related concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, body image and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and co-occurring conditions. He also brings experience with personality and social differences like avoidant or antisocial features and autism spectrum traits.
Justin has five years of professional experience as an LCSW, licensed clinical social worker. That background includes working with people who want help sorting priorities, handling strong emotions, and making lasting changes in behavior. Beginning therapy can feel hard.
Justin invites people to take that step at their own pace. He offers a straightforward, down-to-earth style and aims to build a working plan that fits each person’s life and goals.
Evidence-informed techniques and online care
Justin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on teaching coping skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach is skills-based work that breaks problems into manageable steps and builds practical strategies for anxiety, stress, and cravings. This helps people reduce symptoms and handle difficult moments more effectively.Another approach emphasizes trauma-informed care that recognizes how past hurt affects current behavior and relationships. This method helps people make sense of painful experiences, build safety in daily routines, and practice new ways of responding to stress.
Choosing the right technique is a joint effort. The therapist will discuss options, try approaches that fit the client's needs, and adjust plans based on progress and feedback. Clients are involved in setting goals and deciding what feels most useful.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video offers face-to-face interaction, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit quick check-ins or people with busy schedules. These formats help clients keep continuity of care while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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