Joseph Setchel
Practical, experienced counseling for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LMHC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joseph
Joseph Setchel is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 21 years in the mental health field. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strains, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, sleep problems, attention issues, bipolar disorder, and career or self-esteem struggles. He speaks English and practices from Florida.
His style aims to be straightforward and practical for someone who may be worried or overwhelmed. Joseph trained in psychology and music at Stetson University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 1999.
Background and approach
He later completed a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at the University of Central Florida in 2002, followed by a two-year post-master's internship and licensure in 2007. His credentials include Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor FL LMHC MH9040 and New Hampshire Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor LCMHC 3363. Therapy with him often mixes methods to match a person's needs.
He may use cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning and direction, and uses client-centered methods to follow the individual's priorities. Sessions are intended to produce clearer thinking and better coping skills.
Joseph emphasizes choice, honesty, authenticity, cultural awareness, and respect in the process. He focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. To begin, a simple matching process and scheduling step is used so sessions can be arranged according to therapist availability.
Joseph aims to be collaborative and to help people make concrete progress toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to shape goals at their own pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. It teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve sleep or daily functioning.
Existential therapy examines meaning, choice, and values to help people facing life transitions or questions about direction. It can be useful when practical strategies need to be paired with deeper reflection.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust over time if something is not helping.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions into busy lives, review materials between meetings, and keep progress moving even when in-person meetings are difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to these formats so therapy stays practical and focused.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English
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