Joshua DuBoise, LPC

Clinical Supervisor

Clientele: Adolescents (12+), Adults; Couples & Families (marital & pre-marital)

Specialties: Anxiety, depression, trauma, men's mental health, grief, addiction, Christian counseling, marital intimacy, family and couple communication, adolescent challenges, blended families, divorce and major life transitions

Approach: Gottman Method (Level 3 trained), EFT, CBT, DBT, mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy

Insurance & Private Pay rate: Aetna, United, UMR, BCBS; $180/55 min

Helping Couples Reconnect, Men Find Their Footing, and Families Build Stronger Relationships

Hi I’m Josh, a husband, father, veteran, pastor, and therapist.

Over the years, I’ve learned something from each of those roles: relationships matter, life can be complicated, and even strong people need support sometimes.

I’ve spent more than 20 years in ministry and more than 17 years working in mental health. I’ve sat with people through marriage struggles, crises, grief, trauma, addiction, questions of faith, and some of the hardest transitions of their lives. I’ve also experienced marriage, fatherhood, leadership, service, and change in my own life.

All of that shapes how I show up as a therapist.

Maybe you and your spouse still love each other, but you’ve lost the ability to really hear one another. The same arguments keep happening. Intimacy has changed. Resentment has accumulated. Somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling like partners and started feeling like opponents—or simply roommates.

Or maybe you’re a man who’s spent years doing what needed to be done: working, providing, protecting, leading, and taking care of everyone around you. You’re used to being the person others depend on, but you’re not quite sure where you’re supposed to go when you’re the one struggling.

Perhaps your faith is important to you, and you want a therapist who understands that your spiritual life isn’t separate from your marriage, relationships, identity, or mental health.

You don’t need someone to tell you that life is hard.

Sometimes you need someone who understands the weight you’re carrying, isn’t afraid to have an honest conversation with you, and can help you figure out what comes next.

That’s the kind of therapist I strive to be.

My goal is to create a relationship where you feel genuinely seen, understood, and safe enough to explore what you’ve been carrying.

Couples Therapy

Getting Back on the Same Team

Couples rarely come to therapy because they stopped caring.

More often, they’ve become caught in patterns they don’t know how to change.

One person pursues while the other withdraws. Small disagreements become big arguments. Old hurts get brought into new conversations. Affection disappears. Intimacy changes. Eventually, both people may start wondering, “How did we get here?”

My background is in Marriage and Family Therapy, with particular expertise in the Gottman Method.

Couples therapy with me isn’t about deciding who’s right and who’s wrong. It’s about understanding what’s happening between you.

Together, we can work on:

Communication and recurring conflict
Emotional and physical intimacy
Rebuilding friendship and connection
Premarital counseling
Preparing for marriage
Trust and relationship repair
Blended-family challenges
Major life transitions
Divorce recovery

I’ve spent years studying what helps relationships survive—not simply in theory, but in real life. I also wrote I Do: If You’re Thinking About Saying “I Do” to help couples think more intentionally about marriage before making that commitment.

My goal is to help you stop fighting against each other and start working together again.

Men's Mental Health

A lot of men have learned how to carry responsibility. Far fewer have been given a place to put it down.

You may be the person everyone expects to stay calm, solve the problem, provide, protect, or keep moving.

But underneath that responsibility there may be anxiety, anger, grief, loneliness, relationship struggles, questions about purpose, or simply exhaustion.

Therapy doesn’t have to mean sitting in a room endlessly talking about your feelings.

My approach is gentle but direct. We’ll talk honestly about what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to change.

Whether you’re navigating marriage, fatherhood, career pressure, divorce, grief, trauma, or a major transition, therapy can give you a place to step outside your roles for a moment and figure out what you need.

Faith-Based Counseling

For some people, faith isn’t separate from mental health.

It’s part of how you understand marriage, family, suffering, forgiveness, identity, and purpose.

I’ve spent more than two decades serving in local church ministry in addition to my work as a professional counselor. That gives me a unique ability to understand both the psychological and spiritual dimensions of what clients may be experiencing.

If your Christian faith is important to you, we can intentionally integrate it into therapy.

We can explore difficult questions about relationships, suffering, forgiveness, responsibility, boundaries, and purpose without asking you to leave your faith outside the therapy room.

And if faith isn’t part of what you’re looking for, that’s okay too. Therapy will always be guided by your values, goals, and beliefs.

Experience That Goes Beyond the Therapy Room

Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with people during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.

My experience includes suicide prevention and intervention at a children’s hospital, hospital-based crisis intervention, correctional mental health, and extensive work with individuals, couples, and families.

I’ve supported clients navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief and loss, and a variety of marital and family issues,

These experiences have taught me not to reduce people to a diagnosis or a difficult chapter in their lives.

There is always more to the story.

What It’s Like to Work With Me

My style is gentle, direct, and relational.
I want therapy to be a place where we can have honest conversations without judgment—but also without avoiding the things that need to be addressed.
I draw from the Gottman Method, EFT, CBT, DBT, mindfulness, Solution-Focused Therapy, and other approaches depending on what you need. But techniques are only part of good therapy.
The relationship matters. You should feel that your therapist understands you, respects you, and is willing to tell you the truth while helping you figure out what to do with it.

A Bit About Me

Outside my role as a therapist, I’ve spent much of my life serving in roles that involve responsibility to other people—as a husband, father, veteran, pastor, and leader.

Those experiences have shaped the way I think about relationships and mental health.

I’ve learned that strength and vulnerability aren’t opposites.

Sometimes strength means having the difficult conversation.

Sometimes it means admitting that something isn’t working.

Sometimes it means asking for help before a relationship reaches its breaking point.

And sometimes it means deciding that the way you’ve always done things isn’t the way you want to keep doing them

Who I Work Best With

I especially enjoy working with: 

Couples who love each other but have lost their connection
Couples struggling with communication, conflict, or intimacy
Engaged and premarital couples who want to build a strong foundation
Men navigating relationships, fatherhood, career pressure, grief, or major life transitions
Individuals and couples who want Christian faith integrated into therapy
Blended families and couples navigating complex family dynamics
Adults working through anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, or loss
People who appreciate a therapist who is compassionate but also willing to be direct

Schedule a Consult with Me Today

Good relationships aren’t built by avoiding hard things.

They’re built by learning how to face hard things differently.

Whether you’re trying to reconnect with your spouse, prepare for marriage, find your footing as a man, work through a difficult season, or understand how your faith fits into what you’re experiencing, you don’t have to figure it out by yourself.

I’d be honored to sit down with you, understand what’s happening, and help you find a way forward.

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