About Joshua
Joshua Martin is a licensed professional counselor practicing in South Carolina. He uses straightforward, goal-focused conversations to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and struggles with addiction. He keeps sessions practical and aimed at what a person needs right now.
Joshua offers a calm, accepting space where people can speak openly. He centers sessions on the client’s goals and helps them decide what matters most. Conversations focus on real-life steps and coping tools rather than long explanations.
Background and approach
Over seven years of work have given him experience with career concerns and relationship-related issues like communication problems, attachment and abandonment worries, and divorce or separation stress. He also helps people facing shame, guilt, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Men’s issues, social anxiety, panic, and phobias are additional topics he addresses.
Joshua draws on practical approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. These methods guide sessions toward values, thinking patterns, and small behavior changes that add up over time. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, and text messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy days.
He works with people to set clear goals and track progress, adjusting the plan as needs change.
Using ACT and CBT online to meet real-life goals
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life-direction questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can reduce panic, phobias, and social anxiety symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joshua collaborates with each person to decide whether ACT, CBT, or client-centered listening is the best way forward. He starts with a discussion of goals, then adapts methods to match a person’s preferences and progress over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and texting work well for brief check-ins, worksheets, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people access consistent care while balancing work and family life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English