About Joshua
Joshua Siskin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 17 years of experience. He focuses on practical steps that help people feel less stuck and more able to cope. Joshua aims to highlight strengths and build on what already works for each person.
He tends to take a solution-focused, client-centered approach. Sessions are aimed at figuring out manageable changes and small skills to try between meetings. He encourages people to notice and use their existing abilities rather than getting caught in lengthy searches for causes.
Background and approach
Joshua works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, and ADHD. He also helps people dealing with career shifts, chronic health challenges, and caregiver fatigue. His practice includes attention to attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, and varied identity or relationship expressions.
His clinical toolkit draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. That mix lets him match practical skills to the particular problem a person brings. Sessions move at a steady, goal-oriented pace while staying flexible to individual needs.
Joshua offers services in English and Hebrew and works with people in California as well as international clients by online formats. He uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started requires completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time to meet.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that reflect their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to change mood and reactions; it is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, with practical tools for distress tolerance and emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joshua collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try, matching techniques to the client’s goals and preferences. He adjusts the plan based on what is helping and what isn't, so therapy stays practical and goal-directed.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, homework support, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
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