Justin Garris
Compassionate, practical therapy for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Justin
Justin Garris is a Licensed Professional Counselor who offers straightforward, respectful care for people facing stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, and major life changes. He aims to make the first step feel doable and practical. Justin frames sessions around the things that matter to each person.
He keeps talk focused and clear so clients can try new strategies between meetings. He uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help with mood, coping skills, and relationship patterns.
Background and approach
That can include looking at unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavior changes, and noticing emotional cycles that keep problems stuck. He adapts pacing based on what a person needs that week. Justin brings three years of professional experience and holds a Master of Science and Mississippi LPC number 2376.
He practices from Mississippi and provides services in English. He emphasizes respect and sensitivity when discussing difficult topics like trauma, addiction, or loss. Sessions may focus on immediate coping skills, clearer communication, or mapping a practical plan for changes at home.
He offers a calm, steady approach without jargon. The goal is to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to take next steps. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair a person with his practice and schedule.
From there clients choose session types that fit their life and preferences.
How Justin's Approaches Work Online
Justin uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and shift thoughts and behaviors that make stress and anxiety worse. That approach focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions, like testing new ways of thinking or changing routines.He also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to notice patterns in feelings and interactions that keep problems repeating. EFT helps name emotions and change how people respond to one another, which can be useful for relationship and attachment-related concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. He will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy makes these methods more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility lets people fit therapy into busy days and continue work between sessions. It also allows follow-up, practice, and shorter check-ins when helpful, while keeping the focus on practical change and emotional clarity.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Justin
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point