A smiling man with dreadlocks wearing a red hoodie with white text, glasses, and a black hat with a red underside, standing outdoors near a building and holding a basket.

DJ Watson

Co-Founder, LMFT

Individual Therapy - Men/Masculinity - Couples Therapy - Family Therapy

Life Transitions - Teens - LGBTQIA+

This is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Lesbian
LGBTQ+
Life Coaching
Marital and Premarital
Men's Issues
Mood Disorders
Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Personality Disorders
Polyamory & ENM
Relationship Issues
School Issues
Self Esteem
Sex Therapy
Sex-Positive & Kink Friendly
Sexual Abuse
Spirituality
Sports Performance
Stress
Substance Use
Thinking Disorders
Transgender
Trauma and PTSD
Veterans

Clinical Expertise

Addiction
ADHD
Adoption
Alcohol Use
Anger Management
Anxiety
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Bisexual
Body Image
Career Counseling
Child
Chronic Illness
Chronic Impulsivity
Codependency
Coping Skills
Depression
Divorce
Dual Diagnosis
Education and Learning Disabilities
Emotional Disturbance
Grief
Impulse Control Disorders
Infertility
Infidelity

DJ is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 15 years of experience collaborating with individuals, families, communities, and organizations to navigate and address complex issues related to race, class, culture, sexuality, gender, and ethnicity within a rapidly evolving world.

He is an IAMFT Executive Board member and a member of the NEIU Counselor Education Advisory Board. DJ provides individual, couples, family, & group therapy, as well as professional training and consulting.

He specializes in using narratives to foster healing and growth through meaning-making and social justice. DJ integrates techniques from multiple therapeutic theories to identify skills, build upon strengths, and reduce negative symptoms. DJ helps couples, families, individuals, and organizations create a positive vision for the future in an ever-changing world by blending humor, knowledge, passion, and compassion.