About Joseph
Joseph Ramsey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has provided counseling for 16 years. He holds a Master of Social Work and has spent much of his career in community mental health. Joseph focuses on building trust and getting to know each person who comes to him.
He approaches therapy with plainspoken, direct communication. He sees the person in front of him as the expert on their life and works alongside them.
Background and approach
Sessions often start with practical goals and small steps to reduce stress or improve mood. Joseph uses approaches that help people change thoughts, manage emotions, and process difficult memories. He draws on client-centered work to keep conversations focused on the person’s priorities.
He also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT ideas to teach emotion and distress skills. For trauma and painful past events he incorporates EMDR techniques that aim to reduce the hold those memories have. He also uses motivational interviewing when someone needs support finding motivation to change behaviors such as substance use.
Across concerns like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, parenting strain, sleep problems, addiction, and relationship stress, Joseph aims for straightforward plans people can try between sessions. He helps with personality-related challenges, communication problems, and life transitions too. Joseph practices in New York and provides services in English.
His style is collaborative and goal-focused, with an emphasis on honest feedback and practical strategies to help people move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Joseph uses client-centered techniques that keep the focus on what matters most to the person. This approach helps identify priorities and build trust so the work stays relevant and practical.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT provides tools to notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.
For trauma-related symptoms Joseph incorporates elements of EMDR to help reduce the intensity of distressing memories. EMDR techniques are used with careful pacing and are aimed at making painful memories feel less disruptive in daily life.
He treats the choice of approach as collaborative. Early sessions involve discussing goals, testing techniques, and adjusting plans based on progress and preferences. The therapist and client work together to find what helps best for the person’s situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer discussions. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, between-session coaching, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English