Joshua Plantz
Calm, practical therapy for life and recovery
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joshua
Joshua Plantz is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. He has over two decades of clinical experience and uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and mood concerns. Joshua earned his master's degree in mental health counseling from Nova Southeastern University and brings long-term experience working with adults facing trauma and recovery challenges.
He favors a collaborative and solution-focused style. Sessions often focus on clear goals and steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Joshua uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered techniques, and mindfulness to address thinking patterns, coping skills, and day-to-day stressors. Joshua has substantial experience supporting people recovering from abusive relationships and related post-traumatic stress. He also works with concerns such as parenting stress, career transitions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and smoking or vaping cessation.
He aims to make therapy practical and time-efficient while respecting each person’s pace. In sessions he combines motivational interviewing with solution-focused planning to help clients find their own reasons and paths for change. Joshua draws on 23 years of practice to match strategies to a client’s life and needs.
He also adapts approaches when issues overlap, such as co-morbidity or codependency. People who choose him can expect direct, plain-spoken guidance and concrete tools they can apply between sessions. Treatment plans are shaped around what the client wants to accomplish and realistic steps to get there.
Therapy approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building a supportive, respectful relationship. It helps when someone needs space to talk and to feel heard before making changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and habits like smoking or vaping because it gives clear exercises and steps to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and body sensations without being swept away by them. It can reduce reactivity to stress and support coping during recovery from trauma or when managing daily worries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joshua will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust the plan as needed so therapy fits the client’s life.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Clients can meet from home, during a break at work, or between responsibilities. These formats make it easier to keep momentum, try skills in real life, and stay connected when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard.
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
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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