About Joshua
Joshua Peele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and parenting challenges. He also supports those facing ADHD, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, anger, low self-esteem, and career questions. Joshua practices from North Carolina and brings five years of clinical experience to his work.
Joshua uses a relaxed, down-to-earth style in sessions. He favors a strengths-based, solution-focused approach that centers the person's goals.
How Joshua works
Conversations tend to be straightforward and practical, with an emphasis on what can be done next rather than dwelling only on problems. He blends several approaches to match each person's needs. That includes acceptance and commitment ideas that help people live by their values, cognitive-behavioral strategies for shifting unhelpful thoughts and habits, and attachment-based work to improve closeness and safety in relationships.
Joshua also draws on dialectical skills when mood instability or intense emotions get in the way. Sessions are meant to feel like a collaborative process. Joshua listens carefully, highlights strengths, and helps create small, doable steps toward change.
He aims to offer a calm, nonjudgmental space where difficult topics can be talked through honestly. People seek him out for a wide range of life stresses, including grief, caregiving strain, chronic illness concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and intimacy-related topics. He works with each person to build skills that fit their daily life and long-term goals.
Joshua lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Joshua works with
The areas below are the ones Joshua selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Joshua uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters most, and take small actions that align with their values. This approach can be helpful for persistent worry, low mood, and life transitions.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain stress and anxiety, and to teach practical tools for changing those patterns. CBT is useful for managing symptoms like panic, negative self-talk, and mood swings.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, then blend methods that fit the situation. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted over time as needs change.
Online sessions are available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which allows flexibility around work, caregiving, and daily routines. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping care consistent.
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