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A Bit About Me
Joshua Cortes, B.S., LCSW is an American Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist, Child & Family Therapist, Couples/Marriage Counselor, Clinical Social Worker, and Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Cortes Counseling based in Connecticut. His Youtube channel covers and discusses DCM mental health disorders and psychological findings of the social work world.
Mr. Cortes's specializations and expertise are in anxiety, depression, anger management, trauma/PTSD, career counseling, psycho-religious counseling, couples & marriage counseling, separation/divorce, and child & family therapy, and parenting counseling.
He has also had formal training/clinical experience treating adolescents, adults, couples, & families with: Anxiety Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Behavioral Disorders, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Personality Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and Eating Disorders.
Josh is from the Bronx, NY; and in his free time he enjoys studying Psychology, Psychiatry, Language, Philosophy, Psychics, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Metaphysics in his free time. For hobbies, he participates in mixed martial arts, boxing, making music, and is also a former competitive bodybuilder. Josh also creates therapeutic long-form virtual content on YouTube to provide his psychological and psychiatric findings in his research of the social work world. Josh is charismatic, empathetic, conscientious, forthright, & strongly believes that the underlying unconscious/identification of a person is always seeking to find equilibrium with the ego, id, and the super-ego. Which is a state in which every working part of a person’s psychology is in harmony. So that what they unify in construction, works at its most effective and efficient. As the great Clinical Psychologist Sigmund Freud once said:
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are what legitimately directs his conduct in the world.”
Professional Work Experience
Boys & Girls Village
Licensed Child & Family Therapist
May 2022- February 2024
Southern Connecticut State University
The Office of Career & Professional Development- ConnCAP Program
Graduate Assistant
May 2021- May 2022
- Provided weekly individual and family therapy to 10+ adolescents ages 9-18 with mental health/behavioral health concerns and co-occurring substance use disorders to regulate diagnostic disorders and symptomatology.
- Collaboratively developed individualized and culturally sensitive treatment plans alongside adolescents, caretakers, clinicians, interdisciplinary teams, and community providers.
- Guided children and families through research-based psychoeducation on mental health, mood regulation, substance use disorders, effective parenting strategies, and interpersonal communication to improve familial dynamics.
Department of Children & Families
Graduate Intern
May 2021- May 2022
Connecticut Youth Resources
Certified Therapeutic Youth Mentor
May 2018- May 2021
Cortes Counseling
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
August 2024 - Present
Stokes Counseling Services
Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist
September 2023 - November 2025
JCFitness LLC
Personal Trainer
January 2018- April 2021
- Imparts clinical counseling to 50+ clients weekly (75+ total clientele) with differential diagnoses of mild to severe mental health disorders and/or substance use disorders.
- Specializations and expertise are in: anxiety, depression, anger management, trauma/PTSD, career counseling, psycho-religious counseling, couples & marriage counseling, separation/divorce, and family and parenting counseling.
- Provides clinical psychotherapy in a generalist capacity and has extensive experience working with adolescents, families, adults, and couples/marriages.
- Utilizes empirical psychoeducation and psychometric particularities to facilitate greater outcomes in prognoses of mood affect lability, relational dynamics, intra/interpersonal conflictions, cognitive/behavioral processes, parenting practices, substance use, and all presenting client concerns.
-Conducts comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments to materialize precise diagnoses and develop specialized treatment plan goals, objectives, and interventions.
- Identified clients with urgent mental health conditions and/or medical concerns (e.g. suicidality, homicidal proclivities, psychotic features, somatics/physiological ailments, etc.) and makes appropriate clinical accommodations and/or referrals to appropriate healthcare providers and treatment facilities.
- Extensive experience working alongside clients mandated for treatment by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and Connecticut Courts.
The ConnCAP program was founded and funded by the State of Connecticut Department of Higher Education. The students were selected to participate in SCSU ConnCAP at the end of their 9th grade and to continue in the program until high school graduation.
The program’s main objectives are:
1) to ensure successful high school graduation for its participants;
2) to assist students in applying to and enrolling in a college of their choice with the ultimate goal of college graduation.
SCSU ConnCAP program aimed to serve 40-50 Black and Latinx youth within the New Haven Public School System. My specific duties include, but were not limited to the following:
- Facilitated bi-weekly career exploration workshops among 40+ disenfranchised high school students that aided in an 80% success rate of client satisfaction reporting in service quality.
- Developed, produced, and analyzed all educational material, resume writing programming, and occupational development curricula with pre and post-testing measures.
- Led the Young Adult Program that guided 30+ adolescents in their development of self-efficacy through leadership skills, seminars, activism, and organized advocacy upon completion and discharge from state care.
- Cultivated an environment where client strengths and feedback were paramount to advancing agency policy, practice development, and direct services provided.
- Mentored 15+ adolescent males with substance use, behavioral health, and cognitive/executive functioning difficulties.
- Aided development in youth’s life skills, prosociality, and emotional stability through specialized programming and lesson planning.
- Detailed and organized case management system and procedure to ensure best restorative services for the youth are taken.
- Supervised weekly visitations for foster children and primary caregivers within several of DCF’s offices.
-I offer custom personalized training/coaching and I have created several E-Books that are designed to get you to your physical health goals.
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