Mental Health Support in State College and Online
We focus on individual, career, couples and grief counseling
Supporting the mental health of students, professionals, and entrepreneurs, and their families as they face the challenges, decisions, and transitions of life, work, relationships, and schooling.
Career Counseling
What we do is just as important as who we are, and career disruption rarely stays contained to work. Josh is a Certified Career Counselor (CCC) who helps students, professionals, and mid-career clients navigate transitions, job loss, and questions of direction and purpose.
Couples Counseling
Most couples don't have a communication problem — they have an emotional disconnection problem, and communication is where it shows up. Josh uses an EFT-informed approach to help partners break repeating conflict cycles, rebuild trust, and reconnect after distance, betrayal, or a major life transition.
Grief Counseling
Loss of any type can be devastating and disorienting, and grief isn't limited to the death of a loved one. Josh is a Certified Grief Counselor (GC-C) with experience helping clients process loss, work through complicated grief, and find their way forward at their own pace.
Joshua A. Kirby, LPC, NCC, CCC, GC-C
Licensed Professional Counselor (Pennsylvania)
My work centers on transitions — the moments when identity, relationships, and direction are all in motion at once. For individuals, I am grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support clients navigating grief, career challenges, and the mental health strains that come with major change. For couples, I practice Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), an attachment-based approach that helps partners break negative cycles and rebuild secure connection. Whether you come alone or together, I aim to be a grounded, honest, and skilled partner through whatever transition you're facing.
My Expertise
Academic & Education Issues
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No matter the school or training center, no matter the level, degree, or certification, being a student can be challenging and stressful. We can discuss your situation and explore your options for making the experience better.
Anxiety
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Work, school, and life in general can be sources of anxiety. We can explore triggers and treatments to help you regain control.
Coping Skills
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Healthy coping skills allow for an opportunity to reduce the effects of life's stressors, and we can explore the skills that help you most.
Depression
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Work and schooling are integral components of personal identity, which also links those environments to depressive symptoms in people who are prone to depression. Let's learn more about the depression and how it is linked to other facets of life.
Grief
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Grief is much more than sadness about a loved one's death. Grief can be a part of work or school environments and can affect our perceptions and performance in our professional and student life.
Life Coaching
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Career counseling strategically employs both traditional mental health counseling techniques and contemporary career coaching perspectives to provide clients with credible and effective options for their future selves.
Peer Relationships
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How we get along with others can greatly impact our experience at work and school. We can analyze the health of your relationships and better understand how to relate effectively with others while not sacrificing personal values.
School Issues
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Education and training are important avenues to a future self we can be satisfied with, and students/trainees in these settings can experience great pressures, distorted perceptions of reality, and a questioning of values.
Self-Esteem
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Work and school settings are all about performance, and with performance comes evaluation, which can ultimately impact self-esteem. We can discover whether your beliefs about yourself and your work are helpful to your overall feelings for life satisfaction.
Testing and Evaluation
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Using online and paper tools to test, assess, evaluate, and better understand who we are, the strengths we have, and the potential avenues for fulfillment in our studies and work.
Workplace Issues
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Work settings can influence our wellness, and yet we don't always know how to best frame our work and our relationships in our workplace.
My Approach & Values
I support clients navigating grief (from all types of loss), career transitions and indecision, anxiety, depression, burnout, low self-esteem, toxic workplaces, forced career change, and the disorientation that comes when identity and direction are in question.
With couples, I bring together partners experiencing emotional disconnection, recurring conflict, attachment injuries, the relational effects of trauma, and the strain that major individual or shared transitions can place on a bond.
Our counseling relationship—individual or couples—is a custom-tailored space for honesty, support, and strategy. I see clients from high school age through retirement, across all professions, backgrounds, and relationship structures.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you accept insurance?
AutumnSpring Counseling® is a private pay (self pay) fee-for-service practice that does not accept insurance. Please review our Fees page for more detail on costs and payment methods.
Are you accepting new clients?
Yes, Joshua Kirby is currently accepting new clients. Prospective clients are encouraged to read the psychotherapy page and Joshua's Psychology Today profile to appreciate his areas of specialization and the clientele he best serves.
Fellow health providers will find useful information on our Referrals page.
Are you licensed?
Joshua Kirby is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania (PA PC017234) and Montana. He is also registered to provide mental health counseling via telehealth to clients located in Florida, South Carolina, Idaho, Vermont, and Delaware.
Where are you located?
AutumnSpring Counseling®'s office is in The Allenway Building on South Allen Street in State College. See the Location page for details about the location, transit, parking, waiting, and other arrival information. Visitor parking spaces are available on a first come first serve basis, with plenty of streetside parking as the next option.
Do you offer online/teletherapy services?
Yes, online appointments are available by prior arrangement. Connection information will be provided prior to the appointment. We use a HIPAA-compliant video platform that clients can access via computer or mobile device. Online clients are expected to situate themselves in a private and secure location with adequate Internet bandwidth that will allow them to speak normally and freely.
What assessments and evaluations do you offer?
Joshua is approved to deliver and interpret a broad variety of mental health and career assessment, evaluation, and profiling tools. Just a few specific examples include the Strong Interest Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, BRIEF-2 for Adults, various depression and anxiety scales, work values and workplace assessment profiles, and a variety of scaling methods for sources of stress and anxiety. He is continually updating his library, and his clients' needs contribute to the tool selection. Many of these assessments incur an administration and interpretation fee in addition to a session fee.
What are your fees?
The full fee schedule for our services is provided on our Fees page. We prefer payment cards (credit, debit, charge), and will also accept personal checks and cash.
Do you offer couples / relationship / marriage counseling?
Yes, Joshua Kirby sees couples—which includes any two people in an emotionally committed relationship.
What type of people do you work with?
Joshua works with individuals and couples navigating major life transitions. For individuals, his specialty is the intersection of grief, career development, and mental health. For couples, he helps partners to heal attachment injuries and rebuild secure connection.
He sees individual clients from high school age through retirement, and couples at any life stage, across all backgrounds, relationship structures, and identities.
When can I / we see you?
Joshua sees all clients by appointment on a standing weekly basis. Depending on the season, the time between the first contact to the no-cost voice-only consultation call is often less than one week.
Will you travel to my business/organization?
Certain package services for businesses and organizations, such as individual counseling, workshop facilitation, assessment tool administration, and workplace climate evaluation, are available to be contracted for on-site delivery. Write to Joshua directly to discuss your ideas at josh@autumnspring.co.
Do you rent space to fellow providers?
Yes, our office has evening and weekend availability for our individual and group spaces. Please review the Rentals page and reach-out!