Joseph (Joe) Gasperini
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joseph
Joseph (Joe) Gasperini offers help for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, parenting challenges, trauma, grief, and many related concerns. He is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC and a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC practicing from Virginia. Joe writes in a straightforward way and aims to make sessions feel practical and down-to-earth.
Joe keeps sessions interactive and collaborative. He listens to what is causing pain and works with each person to build a clear plan.
Background and approach
He uses simple tools so people can handle distress, improve communication, and manage behavior between sessions. With 12 years of experience, Joe draws on a varied background and personal life lessons to shape his work. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from Syracuse University and a Master of Arts in Licensed Professional Counseling from Liberty University.
His licenses include NH LCMHC 3293 and VA LPC 0701007226. He blends practical therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy with mindfulness and narrative approaches. Motivational Interviewing also informs his style when people want to make changes or break patterns.
Sessions focus on clear steps, coping skills, and workable strategies tailored to each person’s goals. Outside of counseling, Joe is a husband and a father of eight. He enjoys his children’s activities, golf, travel, and observing social behavior.
That everyday perspective informs his pragmatic, respectful, and compassionate approach in sessions.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and shifting them into more workable patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many behavior-related problems because it breaks issues into specific thoughts and actions to change.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, combines skills training in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It is often helpful when strong emotions, anger, or relationship struggles make daily life hard. Mindfulness elements are used in both approaches to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and the problem at hand, and together they will choose or blend methods that fit best. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers multiple ways to connect that fit busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home while phone sessions provide a simple audio option. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, coaching, or when flexible timing matters most. These options make it easier to use CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and motivational techniques consistently between sessions.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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