Dr. Augustine Bessong
Compassionate counselor for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Augustine
Dr. Augustine Bessong is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey. He brings 22 years of experience to his work and focuses on family and parenting concerns among a broad set of issues.
He aims to create a respectful, patient-centered space where people can talk through what feels hard and figure out practical next steps. He uses straightforward listening and collaboration. Sessions tend to be warm and interactive.
Background and approach
He believes people can change and views the therapist as a partner who helps guide that process rather than telling clients what to do. Dr. Bessong draws on several proven methods to match each person's needs.
He commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how relationships shape feelings, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize the client's experience in session. He adapts his approach depending on the concern and the person in front of him.
Common issues addressed include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related problems, parenting concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He also works with a range of additional focus areas such as attachment issues, caregiver stress, and blended family matters. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Fees vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships affect current feelings and behaviors; it helps people understand patterns that come from early bonds and improve how they connect with others. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client's perspective, giving space for someone to tell their story while the therapist listens without judgment and supports self-directed growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and routine behaviors, then practices small experiments to change them and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out which methods match a person's goals and comfort level. Sessions can blend approaches as needed, and the plan is adjusted over time based on what's working.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and individuals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter or more frequent check-ins when schedules or attention needs differ. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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