About Joel
Joel Karr, LCSW, helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by life. He works with adults facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addictions, and stress. He also supports people navigating relationship or intimacy issues and those dealing with trauma or its aftereffects.
He keeps sessions practical and focused on relief. Conversations aim to identify what is getting in the way and then try approaches that offer clear tools and steps.
Background and approach
He uses client-centered methods that let people set the pace and priorities for change. Joel draws on a mix of cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical skills to help manage thinking patterns and strong emotions. He also uses solution-focused approaches to help people find immediate, achievable changes.
Hypnotherapy is another tool he offers when it fits a person's goals. With 33 years in practice, Joel brings long experience to difficult problems such as trauma, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. He is based in Colorado and holds an LCSW credential, which is shown after his name.
Sessions tend to be direct and goal-oriented, but also respectful and nonjudgmental. The aim is to reduce unhelpful thoughts and unwanted reactions, and to build practical skills people can use day to day. He welcomes people who want straightforward, experience-based help for pressing concerns.
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy places the person's goals and preferences at the center of sessions. It involves listening closely, working at the person's pace, and shaping each meeting around what matters most to them. This approach helps people who want to feel heard and build confidence in decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and to test new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds tools for managing intense emotions and improving how people handle conflict and relationships.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on how well they fit a person's needs and goals. Clients and the therapist work together to find what feels most helpful.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging offer short, flexible check-ins and ongoing written support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on goals across time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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