About Joy
Joy King is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) working in Vermont with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with motivation and self-esteem. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she personalizes conversations to match each person's needs.
She pays attention to relationship strain and the way daily pressures can wear people down. Joy supports people coping with grief, parenting stress, anger, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
Background and approach
ADHD is also listed among her areas of focus and may be part of conversations when it arises. Joy uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns, try small experiments, and build better coping habits.
Sessions are a place to clarify goals and practice new ways of handling stress and strong emotions. Her style emphasizes working together. She tailors pacing and techniques to the person's pace and priorities.
Many clients find it helpful that sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with direct suggestions when useful. Joy offers different ways to meet depending on what fits a person's life. People can talk about next steps, schedule a first session, and begin shaping a plan that addresses immediate concerns and longer-term goals.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgment. In online sessions this means conversations are paced around what the person wants to discuss and the therapist reflects back what matters most to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and tests small changes to build new habits. Online CBT sessions often involve setting clear homework, practicing skills between meetings, and tracking progress together.
Motivational interviewing helps clarify a person's goals and strengthen their own reasons for change. It is useful when motivation feels stuck and works well in short online conversations or in longer video sessions depending on what the person prefers.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will help figure out which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan over time. That shared decision making helps keep sessions useful and focused on practical results.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make scheduling more flexible and let people fit care into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Vermont
- Languages
- English
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