About Justin
Justin Hernandez is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who brings 13 years of clinical experience to his work. He offers clear, direct support while listening with empathy. His style balances practical strategies with respectful collaboration.
He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, family concerns, trauma and abuse, and depression. He also helps with intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, body image, codependency, and communication problems. Justin draws on several evidence-informed methods. He often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
He also brings Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused approaches to help improve connection and understanding in relationships. Across settings he has served in hospitals, independent practice, schools, and agencies focused on keeping children safely at home. That variety shaped a practical approach to problem solving.
He emphasizes skills people can use between sessions and clear steps toward goals. Clients can expect conversations that are straightforward and caring. Justin treats people as the experts in their own lives and offers guidance and tools based on each person’s needs.
He aims to help clients reduce distress, improve communication, and build healthier patterns over time.
Approaches for connection and coping in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines thoughts and behaviors and teaches straightforward tools to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to emotional experience in relationships and helps partners or individuals name feelings and respond in more connected ways.Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk about goals, listen to what matters most, and suggest methods that match those priorities. Sessions can mix methods as needs change so treatment stays practical and focused on what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone calls work if bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quicker check-ins, and text messaging helps with short updates or reminders. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and keep continuity when life gets disrupted.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English