About Joan
Joan Dewey is a licensed clinical social worker with 28 years of experience who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship struggles, and attention concerns such as ADHD. She speaks in plain terms, listens without judgment, and focuses on practical steps families and individuals can use day to day.
Joan works with people who are trying to repair trust, manage mood swings, or rebuild after loss. Her approach emphasizes the whole life context.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to each person. Cognitive behavioral ideas are woven in to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that make daily life easier. Attachment-based perspectives guide work on repairing patterns in close relationships.
Joan draws on many years of practice across different settings, including support for people facing trauma, cultural and historical stressors, parenting challenges, and substance misuse. She helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and manage intense emotions. Sessions often include concrete goal-setting and skills you can practice between meetings.
Her style is compassionate and direct. She respects where people start and adjusts pace to what feels manageable. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are tools she uses to help people stay motivated and present while making changes.
Joan is licensed to practice in Arizona and Alaska and offers care in English. She encourages taking small steps toward change and works with each person to set realistic, achievable goals.
How Joan's approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's perspective. In online sessions this means the therapist reflects what she hears, asks clarifying questions, and helps clients name their priorities so goals stay practical and clear.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Online work often includes tracking patterns between sessions, trying short experiments at home, and reviewing what worked in subsequent meetings to build small, steady changes.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices that reduce reactivity. These brief exercises can be done during video calls or practiced between sessions with text reminders or chat check-ins to support daily habit building.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joan will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online formats offer flexibility and several practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, and moment-to-moment tracking of mood or behavior. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a routine and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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