Justin Ungar
Understanding, practical help for parents
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Justin
Justin Ungar is a licensed professional counselor in Connecticut with ten years of clinical experience. He focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what’s worrying them. Parents and individuals looking for straightforward help with daily stresses often find his approach direct and practical.
He acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and welcomes that first step. In sessions he listens for what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
He helps clients break concerns into manageable steps and develop realistic coping strategies. Common topics he addresses include stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, low self-esteem, depression, relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, and parenting concerns.
He also works with issues that often overlap with mental health challenges, such as attachment struggles, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, codependency, and coping with major life changes. His background gives him experience handling a wide range of emotional and practical problems. Therapy sessions are offered in English and use clear, everyday language.
He uses techniques shown to help people change unhelpful patterns and feel more in control. Sessions may use talk-based work and practical exercises tailored to a person’s situation. Parents seeking down-to-earth support for family and parenting-related stresses can expect direct feedback and simple tools to try between sessions.
He aims to make progress feel doable and relevant to daily life.
Therapeutic methods and how online sessions work
Justin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and on building skills. One common approach emphasizes practical coping strategies and step-by-step behavior changes to reduce anxiety and manage addictive patterns. This method helps people practice new responses in daily life and see gradual improvement.Another approach centers on processing emotions like grief, shame, or anger through guided conversation and targeted exercises. That work helps people clarify what they feel, reduce overwhelming reactions, and make purposeful choices about relationships and parenting. Both approaches translate well to remote formats and are tailored to each person’s goals.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they adjust methods as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy schedules and use short check-ins when helpful. For many, remote work makes it easier to try new skills between meetings and keep therapy consistent despite day-to-day demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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