Therapist profile
Josiah Woods, LPC
Texas
Licensed Professional Counselor - Stress and Addictions
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- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LPC, Texas / 92908
- NPI
- 1437955143
- Experience
- 3 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Texas
About
- Codependency focus
- Cognitive-behavioral tools
- DBT informed skills
About Josiah
Josiah Woods is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with three years of clinical experience. He works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and depression. He also helps with codependency, abandonment, commitment concerns, communication problems, and issues tied to substance use and control.
Josiah uses a blend of approaches in session. He draws from cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful patterns and from dialectical behavior concepts to build practical coping skills. He also incorporates humanistic perspectives to focus on personal values and psychodynamic ideas to look at repeated relationship patterns.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Josiah listens to what matters most and then helps set small, concrete steps clients can try between meetings. Expect exploration of boundaries, clearer communication strategies, and ways to manage urges or intense emotions tied to addiction or people-pleasing patterns.
He frames work as a collaboration. Clients and Josiah review progress and adjust plans when something isn’t helping. That can mean practicing new ways to refuse requests, saying no without guilt, or learning to notice old relationship habits before they repeat.
His background includes several clinical practice settings over three years in Texas. Josiah works in English and does not take international clients. Before booking, confirm the current session options and details through the site flow.
How sessions work
How evidence-based methods translate to online sessions
Josiah draws on cognitive-behavioral approaches to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, depression, or codependent patterns. That work often involves concrete exercises and homework that can be reviewed from session to session.He also uses dialectical behavior therapy informed skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer interpersonal effectiveness. These are practical techniques for managing urges, reducing reactivity, and improving communication in stressful relationships.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is collaborative. He will discuss which methods match a client’s goals and preferences and adjust plans based on how things are going. Expect decisions about focus and tools to be revisited as progress is tracked.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let a person practice new communication or boundary skills between sessions and bring examples from day-to-day life into conversation.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
3+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does he help with people-pleasing and boundary setting?
Yes. He works with people on setting boundaries, saying no, and reducing people-pleasing habits through practical steps and exercises.
What is his therapy style like?
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. He combines talk and skill practice to address immediate problems and underlying patterns.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has three years of experience working in different clinical practice settings in Texas.
What credential does he hold and where is he located?
He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices from that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with him?
He does not accept international clients.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.