About Joseph
Joseph (Joe) Gasperini helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, anger, addiction, or life changes. He also supports concerns like grief, intimacy issues, parenting strain, career problems, ADHD, and trauma-related struggles. Joe is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing from Virginia.
He brings 12 years of experience and a calm, straightforward manner to sessions. He keeps sessions practical and conversational.
Background and approach
Joe listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals. He draws on a mix of approaches to match what a client needs. The aim is to reduce distress and build skills that work in everyday life.
Joe trained in counseling after completing a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics at Syracuse University and a Master of Arts in Licensed Professional Counseling at Liberty University. His varied life experiences inform how he understands relationship and family stress, addiction, and recovery from loss. In session he is interactive and down-to-earth.
Conversations focus on concrete steps, coping tools, and ways to change patterns that cause pain. He helps clients sort out what matters most and then builds a plan to move forward. People can expect a warm, nonjudgmental environment and a collaborative working style.
Joe combines practical strategies with attention to personal history so changes stick. He welcomes questions and works with each person at a pace they can manage.
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Joseph uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside Mindfulness practices to help people manage difficult feelings and change unhelpful patterns. CBT focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to shift them. DBT adds skills for regulating intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness in stressful situations. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joe will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then adapt methods to fit what works best. He combines short-term skill building with attention to personal history so plans are realistic and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation and work through exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief, timely check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and keep progress moving forward.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English