About Colby
Colby (CJ) Green is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 17 years of clinical experience. He works with people facing common and complex problems like depression, anxiety, anger, stress, addiction, and relationship struggles. He also supports concerns related to parenting, adoption and foster care, ADHD, grief, and career stress.
Colby’s approach is warm and adaptable. He aims to listen first and then match his responses to each person’s needs.
How Colby works
He uses straightforward language and practical tools rather than jargon. He will offer honest feedback while staying respectful and nonjudgmental. In sessions he can act as a guide, coach, or teacher depending on what’s useful.
That might mean practicing coping skills, working on communication, or addressing past trauma and attachment issues. He draws on multiple approaches to find what helps in real life. His background includes inpatient and outpatient care across adolescents and adults.
That range has shaped a flexible style that fits different situations and levels of difficulty. He brings experience with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, bipolar concerns, and behavioral issues. Colby offers a practical, tool-oriented stance.
He helps people build skills for everyday challenges and major life changes. The focus is on making small, steady changes that add up over time.
Colby lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Colby works with
The areas below are the ones Colby selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. It helps people feel heard and figure out their own solutions to problems like anxiety, low self esteem, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with depression, anxiety, anger, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for people who struggle with emotional regulation, self-harm tendencies, or chronic interpersonal conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and daily life. That might mean combining techniques or shifting focus as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be lower bandwidth and work well for a check-in or when speaking aloud helps. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins, written reflections, and flexibility for busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines while keeping treatment consistent and goal oriented.
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