Joshua Sheets
Hopeful, practical therapy for real change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joshua
Joshua Sheets is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina with nine years of therapy experience. He uses straightforward, practical methods to help people move past feeling stuck. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps rather than long, drawn-out plans.
He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness, and Solution-Focused techniques to guide change. Joshua pays attention to the whole person, including physical health, values, and relationships. He listens for patterns of thoughts and behaviors that keep someone feeling stuck.
Background and approach
Together with a client, he looks for small shifts that add up over time, like collecting flecks of gold that become a nugget. In sessions, he helps identify simple skills to use between meetings. Those skills aim to relieve stress, manage anxiety and depression, and improve daily functioning.
Joshua emphasizes practical steps that build on a person’s strengths. He has experience addressing a wide range of concerns, including grief, anger, trauma and abuse, parenting matters, sleep problems, and work-related stress. He also supports people facing mood disorders, ADHD, eating and food-related issues, and fatherhood questions.
Joshua aims to offer honest, nonjudgmental feedback. He asks clients to try agreed-upon steps between sessions so progress can be tracked. His style is collaborative and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on real, usable change rather than lengthy therapy timelines.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Joshua draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and test small behavior changes that reduce distress and improve daily routines. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and sleep problems.He also incorporates Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and increase awareness of patterns. Mindfulness can help people respond differently to strong emotions rather than reacting automatically.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joshua will discuss goals, listen to preferences, and collaborate on a plan that fits each person’s needs. Sessions are shaped by what the client hopes to accomplish and adjusted over time based on what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep progress going from different locations. The variety of formats supports different needs - some people prefer a live conversation while others like short, ongoing check-ins by message.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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