Justin Cross, LPC

Justin Cross is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Virginia. He greets people with a calm, straightforward style and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and anxiety. He wants clients to feel understood before focusing on change.

He has nine years of counseling experience and holds masters degrees in counseling and theology. Before counseling, he spent nearly seven years working as a hospice medical social worker. That background shaped his work with grief, trauma, and compassion fatigue.

Justin uses a person-centered approach that begins with acceptance and listening. Once a client feels heard, he introduces tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and motivational interviewing when those fit a client's goals.

Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented. He helps people build skills for managing panic, depression, obsessive patterns, or anger. He also supports people coping with addictions, relationship strain, parenting stress, and ADHD-related challenges.

People meet him for help with post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, grief after loss, and persistent guilt or shame. He explains techniques in plain language and practices at a pace that feels doable for each person.

Justin works with adults in English and offers a range of remote session formats. He aims to match therapy to what the client needs and how they prefer to work.

How CBT and ACT translate to online therapy

Justin uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT offers concrete exercises and homework that fit well into video or phone sessions and can be practiced between meetings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their values and accept difficult feelings while taking committed action; ACT techniques often include brief in-session exercises and values-based planning that translate easily to remote work.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try approaches that match your situation. Together you can adjust methods and pacing until you find what works best for you.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls let you work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions provide a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit short check-ins or moments when typing is easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.