About Joshua
Joshua Siskin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of experience. He focuses on helping people find practical ways forward when stress, anxiety, relationship strain, addiction, or grief feel overwhelming. He speaks English and Hebrew and offers sessions to clients in California and internationally.
Joshua takes a straightforward, solution-focused approach. He concentrates on what can change now instead of dwelling on how problems began. In sessions he helps people notice strengths and build on them.
Background and approach
The aim is to leave each meeting with clearer steps to try between appointments. He draws on somatic ideas alongside cognitive and acceptance-based methods. That means paying attention to what the body is signaling as well as the thoughts and emotions that come up.
He also uses attachment-informed work to look at patterns in relationships and how they affect daily life. Joshua often supports people dealing with mood changes, trauma and abuse, eating or sleeping concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD. He also works with complicated issues like chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, and intimacy-related concerns.
Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Joshua uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person with the right scheduling option.
How online sessions use body, thoughts, and relationships
Somatic work pays attention to what the body is telling you. It helps people notice tension, breath, and sensations that link to emotions and behavior, useful for stress, trauma, and chronic pain. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and action. It helps people make choices that match what matters to them while managing difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; it can help people shift repeated relationship responses.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. Joshua will work together with each person to test what helps, adjust techniques, and set goals that fit daily life. This collaborative stance aims to match methods to a person’s needs and preferences rather than using one fixed model.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. These formats allow people to continue work from home, while traveling, or between appointments. The variety of options supports ongoing practice, short check-ins, and different ways to process bodily sensations, thoughts, and relationship patterns in a way that suits each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hebrew