About Joshua
Joshua (Josh) Phelps is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Wyoming with eight years of experience. He focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, and ADHD. Josh aims to meet people where they are and help them use their own strengths to move forward.
Josh centers sessions on what matters most to each person. He listens first and helps people tell their story in a way that makes sense to them.
Background and approach
From there he introduces tools that fit the person's goals and day-to-day life. He uses a mix of approaches to match the problem at hand. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thinking and patterns that keep stress and anxiety going.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and impulsivity. Client-centered and narrative ideas shape how he follows a person's lead and honors their perspective. Josh also brings mindfulness exercises into sessions to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be helpful for ADHD and mood concerns.
He works with people coping with grief and with those affected by post-traumatic stress, offering steady support and practical steps. Sessions are conversational and focused on small, doable changes. Josh encourages clear goals, regular check-ins, and tools people can use between sessions.
He understands starting therapy can feel hard and aims to make the process straightforward and respectful.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. In online sessions this means the therapist prioritizes your goals and helps you shape conversations that matter to you. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into clear parts - thoughts, feelings, and actions - and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. That makes it easy to practice exercises between sessions and review progress over video or messaging. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Those step-by-step skills can be taught in sessions and rehearsed through phone or text check-ins to help with impulsivity and intense emotions.Choosing an approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your concerns, goals, and preferences, and then try methods that best match what you want to achieve. If something isn't helping, the plan can change so the approach fits your life and rhythm.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversations and share worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or people prefer speaking without video. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, practice of skills, or ongoing support between scheduled sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English