Joshua Tree Therapy
Therapy in Columbus, Ohio, In-person and Online Statewide
Where Healing and Growth Take Root
If you're here, something in your life may feel heavy, unclear, or harder to carry than it should.
Maybe anxiety keeps tightening its grip. Maybe depression has dulled your sense of energy, hope, or direction. Maybe stress, relationship strain, or old wounds keep showing up in ways you can't ignore anymore. Or maybe it's harder to explain than that. You just know something feels off, and you don't want to keep living this way.
Therapy offers a place to slow down, make sense of what you're carrying, and begin moving forward with greater clarity, meaning, and intention.
At Joshua Tree Therapy, the goal is to help you better understand yourself, reconnect with your voice, and build a path forward that feels true to who you are.
- In person in Columbus
- Telehealth across Ohio
Areas of Specialty
Struggles rarely fit neatly into a category, but they often have patterns. Below are some of the most common experiences people bring into therapy with me. If you see yourself in any of these, you're in the right place.
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Anxiety has a way of making everything feel urgent, even when nothing is actually wrong. Maybe you're overthinking conversations that already happened, dreading situations that haven't arrived yet, or carrying a low hum of worry that never fully goes away. For some people it shows up as constant tension or racing thoughts. For others it's more physical—trouble sleeping, a tight chest, always feeling like you're on edge.\
Whatever it looks like for you, anxiety often thrives in silence. Talking about it, really talking about it, can begin to loosen its grip.
In therapy for anxiety, we slow down and look at what's actually driving those patterns. Using approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and a narrative approach, we work on shifting not just how you think, but how you relate to your thoughts altogether. The goal isn't to never feel anxious again. It's to stop letting anxiety run the show.
I offer anxiety counseling in Columbus, Ohio for adults and adolescents, with telehealth available throughout Ohio.
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Depression doesn't always look like what people expect. Sometimes it's not despair, it's actually numbness: a flatness that makes things you used to care about feel distant or pointless. It can look like sleeping too much or not enough, withdrawing from people you love, or just going through the motions without really being present in your own life.
If that sounds familiar, you don’t have to remain stuck.
Depression therapy isn't about forcing positivity or pushing past the hard stuff too fast, rather, it is about understanding what's underneath, what might be driving the disconnection, and slowly rebuilding a relationship with yourself and your life that actually feels worth showing up for. I draw on Narrative Therapy, Strengths-Based approaches, and CBT amongst other therapies, to meet you where you are and help you find your way back to yourself.
I work with adults and adolescents experiencing depression in Columbus, Ohio, and offer online therapy across Ohio for those who prefer it or can't come in person.
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Trauma isn't always a single dramatic event. Sometimes it's the accumulation of things that happened, or things that should have happened but didn't. Experiences that left you feeling unsafe, unseen, or like you had to become someone smaller to survive. And often, the effects show up long after the original experience, in how you relate to people, how you respond to stress, or how you feel in your own body.
Healing from trauma takes time, and it takes safety. That's what the work here is built around.
We move at a pace that respects where you are. I don't believe in forcing anyone to revisit what they're not ready for. Instead, we build the foundation first: safety, trust, and self-understanding, and let the deeper work happen from that stable ground. Drawing on trauma-informed approaches and evidence-based practices, we focus on helping you make sense of your experience, integrate it, and move forward without being defined by it.
I offer trauma therapy in Columbus, Ohio for adults and adolescents, with telehealth sessions available statewide.
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Sometimes the reason to come to therapy isn't a diagnosis, it's a season. A relationship ending. A career that no longer fits. Becoming a parent. Losing someone. Hitting a milestone that feels emptier than expected. Or just arriving somewhere in life and realizing you don't actually know what you want, or who you are outside of what you do for everyone else.
Finding direction is its own kind of hard work. It is hard to just pick a path, so it can be more about getting honest with yourself about your values, your patterns, and what you've been avoiding. That kind of clarity rarely comes from thinking harder alone. It usually comes from slowing down in the right kind of space and actually looking.
We use our therapy to do exactly that. Drawing on Narrative Therapy, ACT, and Solutions-Focused approaches, we work on helping you reconnect with what matters and take deliberate steps toward a life that actually feels like yours.
If you're navigating a major shift or just feel stuck and unsure of your next move, you don't have to figure it out alone.
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Living with bipolar disorder can feel like you're always bracing for the next shift. The highs can feel electric: productive, expansive, like you're finally operating at full capacity. But they can also lead somewhere you didn't intend. And the lows can be crushing in ways that are hard to explain to people who haven't been there. The unpredictability itself becomes exhausting.
Therapy for bipolar disorder isn't a replacement for psychiatric care or medication management, but it's a critical part of the picture. Understanding your patterns, recognizing your early warning signs, and building a life with enough structure and flexibility to support your stability: that's the work.
I work with adults and adolescents navigating bipolar disorder in Columbus, Ohio, and I approach it without judgment. You are not your diagnosis, and you deserve support that sees the full person, not just the condition.
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A lot of men come to therapy having never really been given a space to talk, not genuinely. Not without having to manage how it lands, or worry about coming across as weak, or figure out how to translate what they feel into words nobody ever gave them growing up.
If that resonates, you're not alone, and you're not weak for struggling.
Men bring a wide range of things into therapy: identity questions, pressure to perform at work or provide at home, difficulty connecting in relationships, emotional numbness that's been there so long it just feels like personality, and the quiet weight of never quite feeling like enough. Sometimes it's a specific crisis. Sometimes it's a slow accumulation of years spent running on empty.
This is a space where none of that has to be managed or minimized. We work at your pace, in a way that actually fits how you think and process, not a one-size-fits-all model that was never really built with you in mind.
I offer men's therapy in Columbus, Ohio for adults and adolescents, with telehealth available across Ohio.
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Not everyone who comes to therapy is in crisis. Some people are just tired of getting in their own way, of the internal voice that second-guesses everything, shrinks in certain rooms, or measures their worth against everyone else and always comes up short.
Low self-esteem shapes more than people realize. It lives in the opportunities you don't take, the relationships where you over-give and under-receive, the constant sense that you're one mistake away from being found out. Over time, it quietly builds the architecture of your life around what feels safe rather than what feels true.
The deeper work is about understanding where those beliefs came from, what they've been protecting you from, and building a more honest and compassionate relationship with yourself. From there, growth tends to follow naturally.
Whether you're looking to build confidence, break old patterns, or simply become more intentional about who you're becoming, there's a place for that work here.
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Relationships can be one of the greatest sources of meaning in a person's life, and one of the greatest sources of pain. Sometimes both at the same time.
People come to therapy with relationship concerns that look very different from each other. Patterns that keep repeating across different partners or friendships. Difficulty trusting, opening up, or feeling truly known by the people closest to you. Conflict that never quite gets resolved, just cycled through. A relationship that looks fine from the outside but feels lonely from the inside. Or simply the slow realization that how you learned to connect with people isn't working anymore.
This isn't couples therapy, it's individual work focused on understanding your own patterns, needs, and relational history. What you bring into your relationships, where it comes from, and how to show up differently in the ones that matter most to you.
If your relationships feel like a recurring source of struggle, confusion, or longing, that's worth bringing into the room.
Accepted Insurance & Payment Options
I accept a range of insurance plans to make therapy more accessible.
Commercial plans
- Aetna
- United Healthcare (UHC/UBH/UMR)
- Anthem BCBS
- Medical Mutual
- Optum
- Oscar Health
Medicare
- Medicare Part B
Medicaid plans
- Anthem Medicaid
- UHC Medicaid
- Humana Medicaid
- Molina Medicaid
- CareSource Medicaid
Private pay options are available, along with a limited number of sliding scale spots based on need.
If you have questions about coverage or cost, we can review your options together.
Meet Your Therapist
I’m Joshua Tree Adams, LISW-S, a licensed independent social worker and the founder of Joshua Tree Therapy. My practice is built on the belief that every person has the capacity to rewrite their story and create a life of fulfillment, meaning, and connection.
I work with adults and adolescents navigating challenges such as anxiety, depression, mood disorders, trauma, life transitions, self-esteem issues, lack of direction, burnout, and relationship concerns. My approach blends evidence-based practices like
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Solutions-Focused Brief Therapy
Strengths-Based Therapy
We find what works best for you by custom-tailoring treatment to your needs and goals.
For clients interested in deeper mind-body integration, I also offer Rooted Motion™, a unique approach that combines traditional talk therapy with movement and strength training.
Whether you’re looking to process difficult experiences, strengthen your relationships, or discover a new purpose, my role is to provide a supportive, collaborative space to help you take the next step forward.
