Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Greetings! My name is Joseph Howard. After several years working as a counselor with military-connected clients, I have returned to BetterHelp. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Indendent Social Worker.. I first began working in the counseling field in 1988. I’ve worked in a variety of settings throughout my career. I’ve worked with children, teenagers, families, couples and single adults. Most recently, I served assignments as a counselor with the US Military, serving children, adolescents and families. I’ve also worked in private practice with adults and young adults entering the world of college, careers and relationships.
Clients have found me to be compassionate and down-to-earth. My aim is to help you gain deeper awareness, self-compassion and healing in areas of your life that until now, may have remained confusing and hidden. It’s the path of discovering yourself, of accepting and loving yourself as you are. I use a non-pathological approach with all of my clients. We are all works in progress, worthy of success.
Our time together is designed to give you new experiential information and to help you take action in alignment with your core goals, to write the story that you want to live, and to live it. This is counseling with a practical, spiritual and emotional focus. Change happens from the inside out and and also from the outside in. I assist you to use both approaches in the most effective ways. Often, I will ask you to do a task or try some new actions. this might be during our session on in your free time. I’ve found that counseling works when you work it. Counseling isn’t a passive process. I want to help you get deeper into your life. You deserve the best!
My clinical orientation and training includes Client-Centered Therapy, P.E.E.R. (Primary-Emotional-Energy-Recovery), Gestalt, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems,Energy, somatic-based methods and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. I also draw from Yogic and Russian Systema-based breatjwork. I’ve found that some of the principles and exercises are useful in helping clients to feel calmer, release stress, have more groundedness and take decisive actions.
I look forward to our work together!
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Joseph Howard is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of professional experience, based in North Carolina. After several years working as a counselor with military-connected clients, he has returned to BetterHelp to continue offering counseling services.
He is authorized to practice independently in both South Carolina and North Carolina and brings a broad background from a variety of clinical settings. Over the course of his career he has worked with children, teenagers, families, couples, and single adults. Most recently he served assignments as a counselor with the US Military, supporting children, adolescents, and families, and he has maintained a private practice working with adults and young adults navigating college, careers, and relationships.
Clients have found him compassionate and down-to-earth. His work focuses on helping people develop deeper self-awareness, cultivate self-compassion, and find healing in areas that may have felt confusing or hidden. He practices from a non-pathological perspective, viewing people as works in progress who are worthy of success.
Joseph aims to provide experiential information and practical steps that align with each person’s core goals, supporting clients in writing the story they want to live and taking action to live it. His approach blends practical, spiritual, and emotional elements, using both internal and external strategies to support change. He often invites clients to try tasks or new actions during sessions or between them, reflecting his belief that counseling works best when the client engages actively in the process.
His clinical orientation and training include Client-Centered Therapy, P.E.E.R. (Primary-Emotional-Energy-Recovery), Gestalt, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, energy- and somatic-based methods, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. He also draws on Yogic and Russian Systema-based breathwork techniques to help clients feel calmer, reduce stress, gain groundedness, and take decisive action.
He looks forward to working together to help clients move deeper into their lives and toward the outcomes they deserve.
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