About Justin
Justin Hughes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Idaho who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. He also supports those facing trauma, anger, addiction, grief, and big life changes. He speaks English and Spanish and has 11 years of clinical experience.
He approaches each person with respect and sensitivity. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. He adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation so work stays relevant and doable.
Background and approach
Justin uses a mix of well-known strategies to help people change unhelpful thoughts, handle strong emotions, and build healthier habits. He draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns and from acceptance-based methods to clarify values and coping. Skills from dialectical behavior work and relationship-focused methods are added when they fit the problem.
In sessions Justin aims for clear goals and simple tools people can use between meetings. He helps set small, realistic steps and checks progress over time. People often leave with concrete strategies for calming anxiety, managing anger, or improving communication.
He welcomes conversations about career stress, self-esteem, ADHD, caregiving strain, blended family concerns, and aging-related challenges. Beginning therapy can feel hard, and he aims to make the process straightforward and respectful so people can move toward the life they want.
Approach-focused care offered online
Justin blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance-based methods to help people change unhelpful thoughts and take action toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood, while Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports moving forward by clarifying values and accepting difficult feelings. He also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through concerns and find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs, checking in and adjusting as you go. The work is practical and goal oriented, and he encourages feedback so therapy stays on track with your priorities.
Online sessions include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video is useful for full sessions and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can serve for check-ins or brief coaching between appointments. These options offer flexibility to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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