About Noreen
Noreen Joyce is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of experience. She helps people who are coping with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Her tone is warm and direct, aiming to make conversations feel manageable even on a hard day.
She focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps people try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her work draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and elements of existential therapy. She also offers EMDR for trauma-related concerns.
These tools are used to address mood disorders, relationship strain, addictions, and life transitions. She has long experience with complicated bereavement, family of origin issues, and chronic illness. That background informs how she helps people navigate big losses and ongoing stress.
Noreen aims to reduce shame and increase practical coping skills. People who prefer a straightforward, respectful style often find her approach helpful. She welcomes conversations about goals and what feels most useful.
Sessions are offered from Hawaii and are conducted in English. Her decades of practice guide a flexible, person-centered way of working. She supports people in regaining steadiness and planning concrete next steps for change.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so the person can set their own goals and move at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, often using simple exercises and practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and have longer conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit around busy days and allow for brief updates or ongoing support between appointments. These options make scheduling easier for people living in different places or managing unpredictable routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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