About Augustine
Dr. Augustine Bessong is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 22 years of clinical experience to his work in New Jersey. He uses a warm, interactive style and focuses on listening closely to understand each person's concerns.
He aims to help people take practical steps toward clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping. He helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, addictions, and issues around intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
He also addresses sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, self-esteem, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. He has experience supporting people from the LGBT community and those facing complex life changes. Dr.
Bessong draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered methods to build trusting conversations. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused work when those fit the problem at hand. He adapts his approach to each person's situation and preferences rather than relying on one fixed method.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical change. Expect a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and guidance on manageable steps between meetings. He encourages people to take a lead in setting goals for therapy.
For people balancing busy lives, he offers several formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. International clients may be seen in English, and scheduling follows the site's matching and booking process.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they connect, react, and seek closeness, and it can be useful for relationship and intimacy-related concerns. Client-centered therapy centers the person in the conversation, with the therapist offering empathy and acceptance so people can explore their goals and feelings at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns like anxiety, low mood, or problematic coping.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for a deeper face-to-face feel, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging makes it possible to share brief thoughts between sessions. These options add flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English