About Justin
Justin Ungar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Connecticut with 10 years of experience. He focuses on guiding people through stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, grief, and challenges with self-esteem. Justin aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly and feel heard.
He helps clients sort through relationship and intimacy questions and works with issues related to parenting, family dynamics, and communication problems. He also addresses anger, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
How Justin works
Additional focuses include adoption and foster care matters, attachment and abandonment issues, body image, and caregiver strain. Justin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to everyday coping skills and thinking patterns that get in the way.
He encourages small, concrete steps so progress feels manageable. In sessions he listens first, then offers tools and experiments clients can try between meetings. He supports people dealing with trauma, chronic health struggles, and complicated loss.
He also helps those exploring kink, BDSM, and alternative sex culture to talk about those aspects without judgment. People can expect straightforward conversation and clear next steps. Justin combines warmth with active problem-solving so therapy fits into busy lives.
He works in English and provides remote session formats for flexibility.
What Justin works with
The areas below are the ones Justin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Justin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. Brief, skill-based approaches teach breathing, grounding, and thought patterns to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These methods help people handle everyday triggers and build steady routines.He also uses trauma-informed strategies that focus on safety, pacing, and gradual exposure to difficult memories. This helps when grief, abuse, or other painful experiences get in the way of daily life. For mood and motivation concerns, he works on behavioral activation and routine-building to restore energy and reduce withdrawal.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Justin will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you go. Together you decide which techniques feel most useful and practical for your schedule and situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging give quick check-ins and tools between sessions, and they can fit into short breaks or when typing feels easier than talking.
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