Joshua "Josh" Jouza
Supportive counselor for stress and parenting
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joshua
Joshua "Josh" Jouza focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns. He offers practical support for mood difficulties, sleeping problems, anger, and struggles with addiction. Josh speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable for a busy parent or caregiver.
Josh earned a Master of Science in Counseling from National Louis University in 2014 and completed a one-year internship at the Counseling Center of Illinois.
Background and approach
During that internship he led state-mandated substance abuse groups, worked with DUI clients, and ran anger management classes. He has eleven years of experience in the mental health field and holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential - IL LCPC 180011248. In practice Josh mixes client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness skills.
He also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when they fit a person’s goals. Sessions often include straightforward coping tools, practice exercises, and steps people can try between meetings. Josh has worked in community outreach and crisis settings, which shaped his practical approach to care.
He emphasizes clear communication and building small, achievable changes over time. His background includes hands-on work with people affected by mood disorders and trauma. People who choose Josh can expect calm guidance, direct feedback, and a focus on attainable goals.
He aims to make therapy useful and readable while respecting each person’s pace. The overall goal is clearer next steps and fewer barriers to everyday functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Josh often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and routines that feed stress or low mood. CBT is hands-on and practical, which can help with sleeping problems, anxiety, anger, and mood swings.He also draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. That approach helps when someone needs a calm space to sort through relationship or parenting challenges and decide what matters most to them.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Josh works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. He adjusts pacing and techniques over time so therapy stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend sessions without travel and to use short check-ins or written exchanges between meetings. Many people find that flexibility helps them keep progress consistent while managing family and work demands.
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.
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
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
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