About Joseph
Dr. Joseph Proctor works with people seeking relief from stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and depression, offering steady support for those ready to make change.
Background and approach
With 23 years of professional experience and an Illinois LCP credential, he frames therapy around each person’s strengths and lived knowledge, helping clients build on what already works in their lives. His practice emphasizes collaboration and empowerment rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.
Dr. Proctor combines evidence-based strategies with a respectful, client-centered stance, guiding clients through practical skills for coping and growth while attending to deeper patterns that can include trauma, communication difficulties, and substance-related concerns.
He also brings experience addressing aging and geriatric issues, personality and relational challenges, chronic illness concerns such as cancer, and intellectual disability. Clients can expect a supportive approach that values courage and practical progress, with treatment shaped to fit individual goals and circumstances.
Dr. Proctor aims to help people increase resilience, clarify values, and develop sustainable ways to manage everyday stressors and longstanding difficulties.
Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and learn skills to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. Both approaches translate well to remote sessions and can be taught through conversations, exercises, and between-session practice.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then tailor techniques from ACT, CBT, or other methods to best support progress. This shared decision making helps ensure treatment feels relevant and manageable for each person.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, practice skills between meetings, and access licensed professionals without travel, allowing therapy to fit more naturally into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English