About Joseph
Joseph Frey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Colorado who focuses on trauma, anxiety, and relationship concerns. He draws on a practical, problem-solving style to help people manage stress, depression, and struggles with intimacy and addiction.
Background and approach
Joseph keeps language plain and sessions focused on clear goals so parents and busy adults can follow the work easily. He uses techniques from EMDR, narrative work, and solution-focused methods to help people make sense of painful memories and move toward measurable change.
Those approaches guide sessions when past hurts, panic, obsessive thoughts, or attachment wounds are getting in the way of daily life. Joseph aims to help people reduce symptoms and regain a sense of direction.
His background includes military service, corporate leadership, and years in independent practice. That mix shapes a direct and organized therapy style that still leaves room for listening and connection.
He invites clients to name practical goals and tries methods that fit each person’s pace and needs. Sessions commonly address parenting strain, communication problems, infidelity fallout, process addictions, eating and food-related issues, and self-harm concerns.
Joseph also works with mood disorders, panic attacks, dissociation, and abandonment or attachment issues using approaches matched to the problem. He offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based sessions to fit different schedules.
Conversations are collaborative: he helps people sort what matters most, then builds short-term plans and longer-term steps to reach their goals.
Online trauma-focused and goal-based therapy
EMDR is a structured approach that helps people process upsetting memories in a focused way so those memories feel less disturbing. It is often used when past events keep causing high anxiety, panic, or post-traumatic stress symptoms. Narrative Therapy helps people tell and reframe their life stories so painful patterns make more sense and new choices become possible; it is useful for work on identity, attachment, and abandonment themes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and together with the client pick methods that match the presenting issues, goals, and personal comfort. That means sessions can mix trauma-focused methods with solution-focused steps when a faster, practical change is needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when helpful, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These choices make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English