About Justen
Justen Gross is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with 20 years of professional experience. He helps people facing relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career setbacks, depression, and stress. He aims to make the first steps toward change feel doable and supportive for those who reach out.
He approaches work with the belief that each person knows their story best. He looks for strengths to build on and practical ways to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steady steps rather than long lectures or jargon. Justen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, and communication problems. He also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, caregiver fatigue, and issues around intimacy and infidelity.
He balances emotional work with tools for everyday coping. In sessions clients can expect straightforward conversation and collaborative planning. He brings a calm, goal-oriented presence and encourages experiments between meetings.
He offers coaching-style support when people want help with career direction or motivation. Justen works with a wide range of life changes, from divorce and separation to rebuilding after loss. He pays attention to patterns like codependency, control issues, guilt, and shame.
The emphasis is on practical moves that reduce distress and increase a sense of agency.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Justen uses evidence-based techniques focused on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach emphasizes identifying patterns in relationships and attachment so people can make different choices and feel less stuck. Another approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety, stress, and depression so daily life becomes more manageable and calm.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. He listens to what matters most to the client, discusses options, and adjusts the plan based on progress and preference. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to try and when to shift focus.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and reading visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients stay connected between meetings or manage shorter concerns without a full appointment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English