About Joshua
Joshua Siskin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 17 years of experience. He focuses on helping people move forward from stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. He speaks English and Hebrew and accepts international clients.
Joshua takes a practical, solution-focused approach. Sessions concentrate on what a person wants next rather than digging deeply into past causes. He looks for strengths to build on and helps people access motivation and inner resources to make changes.
How Joshua works
Conversations aim to leave clients feeling a little better and clearer about next steps. In session Joshua uses tools from several approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening. He also draws on attachment-informed thinking and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when they fit a person’s needs.
He blends these methods to match the problem and the client’s pace. Joshua has worked with a wide range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including sleep and eating issues, parenting and caregiving stress, chronic illness, codependency, intimacy and body image, and career challenges. He also supports people navigating adoption and attachment questions, aging and caregiver strain, and kink-affirming concerns.
Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on therapist availability.
Joshua lists 15 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)
- Existential Therapy
- 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English, Hebrew |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Joshua blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice what matters and take practical steps toward it. ACT supports identifying values and taking committed action even when feelings are difficult. CBT focuses on recognizing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress.He also uses client-centered listening to create a supportive space where a person’s goals guide the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences so the plan feels doable and realistic.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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