About Joseph
Joseph Kaiser is a New York State licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. He works with adults and young adults on practical concerns like anxiety, anger, depression, career stress, and relationship problems. He also supports people navigating parenting challenges, identity and LGBT matters, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and trauma-related issues.
Joseph uses straightforward, conversational sessions. He listens first, then helps clients set concrete goals. Sessions often focus on small, doable steps that reduce stress and improve daily routines.
Background and approach
He adapts the pace to each person’s needs and keeps things practical and respectful. Over his career he has helped people address attachment and abandonment worries, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care concerns, body image, codependency, and communication problems. He also has experience with more complex presentations such as co-morbidity and disruptive mood patterns.
His work includes addressing sexuality and kink-related topics in an open, nonjudgmental way. Joseph draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused techniques to shape sessions. He uses the Gottman Method with relationship-focused work when appropriate and applies motivational interviewing to support change efforts.
The emphasis is on skills you can use between sessions. Clients in New York and people internationally may connect in English. Joseph aims to create an environment where people feel heard and can try realistic strategies for change.
Practical approaches for online work
Joseph often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on changing patterns that get in the way of daily functioning and can be useful for stress, mood, and ADHD-related challenges.He also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that calm the body and improve focus. Mindfulness exercises are brief skills people can repeat between sessions to manage intense feelings. Solution-Focused Therapy is another tool he employs to set clear, short-term goals and build on existing strengths to create change quickly.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and life situation. Together they track progress and shift strategies as needed to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for short check-ins or to keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English