About Colby
Colby (CJ) Green helps people facing a wide range of concerns. He supports those dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, anger, addictions, ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and identity or LGBT questions. He also addresses career struggles, self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Colby is a Licensed Professional Counselor, with 17 years of clinical experience in Missouri. He has provided care in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has worked with adolescents and adults across many presenting problems.
Background and approach
His background includes work on family and blended-family challenges, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and co-occurring conditions. His style is welcoming and adaptive. He aims to treat people with respect and compassion while avoiding judgment.
He adjusts communication and treatment expectations to match each person's needs and goals. In sessions Colby acts as a guide, coach, and teacher. He offers practical tools to manage emotions and behaviors and helps clients develop clearer communication and coping plans.
He is direct when needed and committed to honest feedback that moves people forward. Colby draws on several approaches to shape sessions, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally-focused work, and existential perspectives. He frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people find a path that fits their values and daily life.
Taking the first step can feel humbling and hard. Colby aims to make that step feel purposeful by offering tools, encouragement, and focused support to handle life’s changes and challenges.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy centers on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to build plans that feel achievable and relevant. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. It often includes practical exercises and homework to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods that seem likely to help. Decisions about pacing, techniques, and exercises are made collaboratively and adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video works well for more in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English