Josue Castro, LCSW

Josue Castro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas. He has five years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, stress, and issues around self-esteem. He offers therapy in English and Spanish and draws on a mix of practical methods to meet each person's needs.

His sessions focus on listening first. He aims to make people feel heard and understood, and then works with them to set clear, manageable goals. Josue uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness techniques to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding.

He pays attention to how culture and life experience shape problems. That means he considers identity, background, and the specific stresses someone faces when planning therapy. He also works with concerns such as attachment and abandonment, post-traumatic stress, dissociation, and the emotional fallout of infidelity or domestic violence.

Practical skills are a big part of his approach. Sessions often include thought tracking, grounding and breathing exercises, and steps to change unhelpful behaviors. He also helps people process painful memories and build steadier self-worth.

Josue keeps the process collaborative. He checks in about what is working and adjusts plans when needed. Therapy can be scheduled as video or phone sessions, or through live chat and text-based messaging to fit different routines.

Approach and online therapy options

Josue commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered and mindfulness approaches in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Client-centered work centers on active listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can set their own goals. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce stress and manage strong emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. He discusses options with each person and adapts methods to match their goals and daily life. The plan evolves as progress is made and as preferences become clearer, so therapy stays collaborative.

Using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be lower-bandwidth and flexible, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and try new skills in real time.