About Joyce
Dr. Joyce A. Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with three decades of experience.
She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship troubles, addictions, ADHD, and life changes. She also supports those facing trauma, anger, self-esteem concerns, career worries, and issues related to identity or parenting. Her style is practical and teaching-focused.
She believes many people come to counseling unsure what to do next, so she offers clear skills and ideas they can use right away.
Background and approach
Sessions often include feedback and short assignments to practice between meetings. Dr. Griffin uses a mix of approaches rather than one fixed method.
She leans on cognitive behavioral methods to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on solution-focused techniques to build small, achievable steps toward goals. Working together is important to her.
She asks clients to help shape a simple treatment plan and to try out problem-solving strategies in everyday life. She checks progress along the way and adjusts the plan as needed. Her background includes long experience with trauma-focused work and with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
She consults with trusted colleagues when cases need another perspective and brings a straightforward, no-nonsense manner to sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Griffin commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking that get in the way and test new ways of acting; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, concrete steps and strengths to move toward specific goals, which can help with stress, relationship issues, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review concerns, try a few techniques, and decide together with the client what feels most helpful. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so methods match the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapeutic work into busy lives while keeping a steady pace of progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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