About Joan
Joan Dewey is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, and phobias. She approaches each person with respect and calm. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Joan draws on nearly three decades of practice and brings a steady presence to sessions. She blends Client-Centered ideas with Cognitive Behavioral techniques to help people recognize unhelpful patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are used to ground clients during moments of intense emotion. Her background includes clinical work across Alaska and Arizona, and she holds an LCSW. Joan has supported people with trauma, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, and a wide range of life transitions.
She also addresses concerns tied to chronic illness, body image, and codependency. In sessions she emphasizes clear communication skills and practical coping tools. Conversations often focus on steps that reduce overwhelm, improve sleep and eating patterns, and rebuild confidence after loss or difficult events.
Joan uses motivational interviewing and narrative approaches when helping people reframe their stories and set achievable goals. She invites clients to collaborate on a plan that fits their daily schedule and priorities. Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Joan's approaches translate to online work
Joan uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where people decide the pace and goals of their work. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and steady listening before making changes.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thoughts and behaviors that maintain problems and to practice alternative responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, phobias, sleep and eating difficulties, and mood challenges because it focuses on concrete strategies and small experiments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joan will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods over time. Clients and therapist jointly choose what feels most useful, shifting between skills practice, mindfulness, narrative work, or motivational interviewing as needed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use the format that best matches a person’s routine and comfort level.
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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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