About Joshua
Joshua Siskin, LMFT, focuses on helping people move forward from things that feel stuck. He uses clear, practical steps to address daily stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and phobias. Sessions aim to highlight strengths and build skills that make life feel more manageable.
Joshua speaks English and Hebrew and practices in California. Joshua brings 17 years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist. He favors solution-focused work that concentrates on what will help now, rather than dwelling on why problems first appeared.
Background and approach
That means working together on small, doable changes a person can try between sessions. He draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to tailor plans to each person. Those methods are used to address issues like anxiety, trauma, addiction, grief, and attention challenges by teaching coping tools and ways to shift unhelpful patterns.
Joshua focuses on strengthening clients' existing abilities. He helps people notice what already works for them, then builds on those skills to face fears, manage mood, and improve relationships. He also supports people dealing with career stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, body image, and intimacy-related concerns.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. International clients are accepted, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a prospective client selects the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Joshua uses evidence-informed methods that translate well to online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward a meaningful life. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and persistent fears by clarifying values and small committed actions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, phobias, and sleep or eating difficulties.Choosing an approach is collaborative. Joshua will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. Together they adjust techniques over time so sessions stay focused on what helps most in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video gives face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is preferred. Chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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