About Justin
Justin Salcedo is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people reduce suffering and live with more meaning. He uses clear, practical methods and a warm, nonjudgmental manner to guide conversations about difficult feelings and life decisions. He has worked in mental health since 2015 and brings seven years of counseling experience to his practice.
His background includes university counseling, psychiatric hospital care, treating substance use and co-occurring conditions, teaching at the university level, supervising other clinicians, and independent practice work.
Background and approach
Justin helps people with anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and issues related to sexual orientation and gender. He also addresses relationship and family concerns along with patterns such as attachment and abandonment, communication problems, control issues, and impulsivity. His approach centers on listening first and building trust.
He combines client-centered listening with evidence-based tools like cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, dialectical behavior skills, and mindfulness practices. Together with each person he looks for the processes that keep problems going and then tries practical steps to change them.
Sessions aim to help people step away from unhelpful thoughts, reconnect to what matters, and take small actions toward values-driven living. Justin emphasizes collaboration: clients set goals and he helps guide the path toward clearer choices and more meaningful routines.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Justin uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT focuses on building meaningful habits rather than trying to force thinking to change immediately and is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can try small behavioral experiments and learn what helps. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to teach present-moment awareness and reduce automatic reactivity to stress.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be a simpler check-in, live chat works for shorter focused conversations, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy steady around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English