About Joshua
Joshua Peele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief. He also supports clients facing ADHD, addictions, parenting strains, intimacy concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and career challenges. Joshua works from North Carolina and offers sessions in English for local and international clients.
Joshua keeps a relaxed, down-to-earth style. He meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talk, checking how the body is responding, and small experiments to try between meetings. He aims to help people feel steadier and more able to handle what comes up. His work brings together somatic ideas and evidence-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
He uses a client-centered stance that emphasizes each person's strengths and choices. Attachment-based perspectives also inform how he looks at relationship patterns and emotional responses. Joshua has five years of experience as a clinician and holds the LCSW credential.
That stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and indicates his professional licensure in North Carolina. He combines clinical knowledge with a practical, empathetic approach to support change. Appointments can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules according to the therapist's availability.
Approaches you can use online
Somatic therapy focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion. It uses gentle attention to breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to help people notice and shift physical patterns linked to anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and commit to small actions that align with those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy, relationship struggles, and patterns of avoidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joshua collaborates with each person to identify what fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. He pairs somatic awareness with ACT and attachment ideas when that combination seems helpful for the person's situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, to try techniques between sessions, and to connect from different locations. The variety of formats supports flexibility while the therapist and client decide which way of working feels most effective.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English