About Joshua
Joshua Brody is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, depression, and major life changes. He works with teens 13 and older and adults. He aims for clear, practical conversations that focus on what is getting in the way now and what can change next.
He brings six years of counseling experience and has personal insight into substance use challenges, which informs his work with people facing addictions.
Background and approach
Joshua uses an eclectic mix of methods to match each person's needs rather than a single fixed approach. Sessions focus on concrete skills, honest reflection, and small steps that add up over time. Joshua often draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
He also uses elements from dialectical behavior methods to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants to find motivation and set realistic goals. In sessions he keeps language simple and practical.
He helps people build communication skills, manage impulsivity, work through attachment and abandonment concerns, and cope with family of origin issues. He also addresses struggles tied to fatherhood, gender dysphoria, and dissociation when they arise. His practice is based in Arizona and he provides services in English.
People can expect a collaborative process that balances straightforward feedback with support for gradually trying new ways of coping.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Joshua commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when someone wants practical steps to change patterns.He also uses skills from dialectical behavior approaches that teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. These techniques help when emotions feel intense or when impulsive reactions cause problems.
Motivational interviewing is another tool he applies to help people clarify goals and strengthen their own reasons for change. It can be especially helpful for addressing addictive behaviors and for anyone who feels unsure about taking the next step.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Joshua works with each person to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts methods over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, or family demands while keeping therapy practical and goal focused.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English