About Justin
Justin Colwell is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. He also supports those coping with trauma, self-esteem struggles, and related concerns like anger. He speaks English and works with clients across state lines, including international clients when appropriate.
Justin approaches each person as an individual. He listens first to understand what is most pressing. Then he tailors conversation and a plan to fit daily life and personal goals.
Background and approach
His style is straightforward and respectful, with an emphasis on practical steps people can use between sessions. Over five years of practice, Justin has worked with many issues that often appear together, such as chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, and body image concerns.
He also helps people facing adoption or foster care questions, attachment or abandonment worries, and communication or commitment issues. Sessions can address more complex personality or developmental concerns too, including avoidant or antisocial traits and autism spectrum related challenges. He aims to break problems into manageable parts and build small, achievable changes over time.
Therapy is offered through a variety of online formats so scheduling can fit into busy lives. Justin emphasizes collaboration - clients set goals and he helps track progress. He frames therapy as a step toward clearer choices, steadier moods, and better daily functioning.
Practical approaches and online care
Justin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, actionable work. One common method involves building coping skills to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step practice and short exercises people can try between sessions. This helps when worry or tension interferes with daily life.Another approach centers on processing trauma and emotional pain in small, paced steps. This method pays attention to safety and current functioning while helping people reduce the hold past events have on their mood and behavior. It can be useful for those dealing with abuse, loss, or repeated stressful experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Justin collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort. He adjusts methods over time as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when more interaction is helpful. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English