Joshua Siskin, LMFT
California · 17 years in practice
Joshua Siskin is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people find practical ways forward.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 48666 · expires April 2026
- NPI
- 1578696894 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English, Hebrew
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Joshua
Joshua Siskin is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people find practical ways forward. He centers sessions on what clients want to change now, and works to draw out strengths people already have. He communicates plainly and aims for each session to leave clients with clearer next steps and a bit more hope.
With 17 years of experience, Joshua blends Existential ideas with tailored strategies to address stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
He also supports people managing trauma, intimacy issues, sleep and eating concerns, and complex challenges like bipolar disorder or caregiving strain. He speaks English and Hebrew and works with people in California and internationally. Joshua favors a solution-oriented stance that focuses less on why a problem began and more on what will help now.
He helps people notice their abilities, practice new behaviors, and build small routines that lead to change. Techniques may draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, and attachment-focused conversation. Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused.
Joshua aims to help clients leave with actions they can try between meetings and with a clearer sense of their next move. He encourages collaboration and keeps explanations direct so people can use what they learn right away.
Joshua’s work also touches on specialized concerns such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, codependency, and kink-positive topics. He frames these areas as practical challenges to be addressed with attentive conversation and concrete steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joshua lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joshua names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Joshua Uses Therapy Models Online
Joshua blends Existential ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches in ways that are clear and practical. Existential work looks at meaning, choice, and responsibility to help people facing life changes or distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy centers on patterns in close relationships and helps people form more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joshua will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences and then outline a plan that pulls from these methods. The plan can change over time as needs shift, and small experiments or exercises are often used to test what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for longer therapy conversations and exercises, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can provide brief check-ins or support between meetings. These options help people keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Joshua help with?
He works with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, and related concerns like sleep and eating problems.
How would you describe his therapy style?
Sessions are solution-focused and practical. Joshua emphasizes small, doable steps and drawing out a client’s existing strengths.
What experience does he bring to sessions?
Joshua has 17 years of experience as a mental health professional, helping people with a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What credentials and region are listed for him?
He is a LMFT - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - practicing in California.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Hebrew, and he also accepts international clients.
What formats are used for meetings?
Joshua offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s listed availability.
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