Joshua Elliott (he/him)

I hold the CCTP-II credential and have completed advanced training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Systems Therapy, and Cognitive Processing Therapy. My clinical background includes crisis intervention, risk assessment, intensive family services, and work with clients affected by trauma, grief, disruption, and major life transitions. I emphasize safety, choice, pacing, and helping clients understand how survival responses developed and continue to affect daily life.

My background in counselor education and clinical practice has emphasized culturally responsive care. I consider how identity, culture, family, faith, community, and systems shape mental health, relationships, and the meaning clients make of their experiences.

My clinical and counselor education background is grounded in relational approaches. I view the counseling relationship as an important part of the work and use a collaborative, direct approach to explore how past and present relationships shape anxiety, boundaries, communication, self-worth, and recurring patterns with others.

I hold the CCTP-II credential and have advanced training in Cognitive Processing Therapy, Trauma Systems Therapy, and Trauma-Focused CBT. My experience in crisis work, risk assessment, and clinical practice informs a trauma-focused approach centered on safety, choice, pacing, and practical strategies for greater stability and control.

I help individuals and partners understand recurring patterns involving communication, trust, boundaries, conflict, disconnection, and changing roles. My background in couples and family counseling, family systems, and relational practice helps me look beyond who is “right” or “wrong.” Together, we may slow down difficult interactions, understand what each person is protecting or needing, and practice more honest and connected ways of relating.

As a queer counselor, I offer affirming care that makes room for identity, relationships, culture, family, faith, and community. I understand how minority stress, belonging, relationship concerns, identity development, and living in less affirming environments can affect mental health and well-being. I do not treat identity as the problem. Together, we can explore what you need to feel safer, more connected, more understood, and more fully yourself.

I work with adults experiencing anxiety, chronic worry, overwhelm, perfectionism, uncertainty, avoidance, and the physical effects of stress. Together, we look at the patterns that keep anxiety going, build practical ways to respond differently, and explore how relationships, identity, work, trauma, and life transitions may be contributing. My approach is collaborative, practical, and grounded in understanding anxiety within the context of your life.

I work with adults navigating relationship concerns such as communication difficulties, conflict, boundaries, trust, disconnection, breakups, and recurring patterns that can leave relationships feeling frustrating or unsatisfying. Together, we can explore what is happening beneath those patterns, clarify what you need from your relationships, and develop more intentional ways of communicating, connecting, and responding.