About Justen
Justen Bryant is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of clinical experience. He practices from Colorado and brings a practical focus to everyday struggles. He emphasizes simple, steady habits like sleep, movement, and mindfulness as part of recovery.
Justen uses a collaborative, client-centered stance. He listens first, then helps people set clear goals and small steps toward them. Sessions often mix problem-solving and skills practice with conversations about values and purpose.
How Justen works
Daily routines matter in his work. He encourages improvements in sleep hygiene, regular exercise, and balanced nutrition as tools that support mental health. He also teaches relaxation practices such as mindfulness and progressive muscle relaxation.
When facing strong emotions, Justen draws on techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Topics he commonly addresses include stress, anxiety, addictions, sleep problems, self-esteem, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, career concerns, bipolar mood issues, and coping with life changes. He also focuses on communication problems, divorce and separation, family of origin issues, impulsivity, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, men’s issues, midlife crisis, veteran and armed forces issues, panic and social anxiety.
His approach blends practical exercises with steady encouragement. Meetings aim to leave people with at least one clear thing to try between sessions. That can make progress feel manageable and real.
Justen lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Justen works with
The areas below are the ones Justen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people find their own solutions. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to clarify goals and build confidence. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical steps to change them; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and mood regulation. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills and can help with strong emotions and impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth talk and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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