About Justin
Justin Garris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and major life changes. He aims to listen without judgment and to work with each person respectfully and compassionately.
Justin uses straightforward conversation to understand what is hardest right now. He tailors sessions and plans to fit each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. That practical focus helps people address day-to-day struggles and make gradual changes.
Background and approach
In sessions he draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to guide the work. That means conversations often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different ways to respond to strong emotions. He applies these methods to concerns such as anxiety, depression, anger, trauma, and relationship strain.
Justin also supports people dealing with ADHD, addictions, and issues around attachment or family disruption. He has experience with discharge areas like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family tension, and body image worries. Practical tools and short-term goals are common parts of his process.
With three years of practice since earning a master’s degree and LPC credential, he combines clinical approaches with a down-to-earth style. He encourages small, achievable steps and checks progress along the way. People who want clear, actionable support often find this approach helpful.
How CBT and Emotion-Focused Work Translate Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, looks at how thoughts and actions interact. In simple terms, it helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. This approach is often used for stress, panic, phobias, and everyday worries.Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and shifting strong emotional responses. It helps people name feelings, trace how emotions shape reactions, and practice new ways of relating to those feelings during conflicts or intense moments. This can be useful for relationship strain, attachment issues, and processing painful events.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and suggest a plan that combines methods when useful. Sessions adapt over time based on what is helpful and what is not, so the approach can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for emotional work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quick check-ins, and text messaging allows short ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while still working on concrete skills and emotional understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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