About Joshua
Joshua Siskin greets people with a straightforward, solution-focused approach. He aims to help people find practical steps forward when stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, or relationship challenges feel overwhelming.
Background and approach
Joshua uses plain language and short, clear sessions to help people feel a little better after each meeting. Joshua is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - with 17 years of clinical experience in California.
He concentrates on what helps now instead of spending long periods studying the past. That means setting clear, achievable goals and practicing small changes between sessions.
In sessions he looks for strengths and skills people already have. He helps clients notice those strengths and put them to use.
He also offers coaching-style guidance for life transitions, career concerns, and coping with burnout or compassion fatigue. Joshua draws on a few well-known methods, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based ideas.
He blends these approaches to match practical goals, like better sleep, managing anger, improving intimacy, or reducing addictive behaviors. He works in English and Hebrew and accepts clients across California, including international clients by arrangement.
Sessions can be scheduled in formats that fit a busy life, and Joshua guides people through the first steps to get started.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take action that matches their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; this is useful for anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based ideas help people understand how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, which can support work on intimacy and relationship distress.Choosing the right approach is usually a shared, step-by-step process. Joshua will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps most. The aim is to find practical tools that match a person's needs and preferences rather than force a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from another location, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can feel simpler, and live chat or text-based messaging makes it easy to check in between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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