Colby (CJ) Green
Supportive counselor for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Colby
Colby (CJ) Green is a licensed professional counselor with 17 years of clinical experience. He provides direct, practical support for people facing family and parenting challenges, mood concerns, stress, anxiety, and relationship issues. His approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping parents and individuals find workable steps forward.
Green draws on a mix of well-known therapies to match a person's needs. He uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most.
Background and approach
He adds cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle thinking patterns and DBT skills for managing strong emotions and behavior. These methods are blended into a plainspoken plan, not a one-size-fits-all script. Sessions focus on real-life problems and usable tools.
He explains ideas in everyday language and offers practical exercises to try between meetings. The work often includes communication skills, coping techniques, and steps to reduce conflict or stress at home. Colby is licensed in Missouri as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor.
He has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and with people at different life stages. That background informs a flexible style that adapts to each person’s situation. People who start with him can expect clear goals and regular check-ins on progress.
He frames therapy as collaborative coaching and problem solving. The emphasis stays on small, achievable changes that improve daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and supporting the person’s own goals. It helps when someone needs space to feel heard and to decide what matters most in parenting or family life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into clear steps. It is useful for addressing anxiety, depression, stress, and practical parenting challenges by teaching concrete strategies to change thinking and actions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be helpful when families face strong reactions, communication breakdowns, or ongoing conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to learn about goals, preferences, and daily realities. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online therapy makes these approaches flexible and easier to use. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations from home, phone sessions work when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or coaching between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy family schedules and make it simpler to practice skills where they are needed.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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