About Joan
Joan Holmes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. She uses a client-centered approach and listens patiently to help people feel understood. Joan focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain.
Joan combines gentle listening with active techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based approaches. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and clarify values to guide decisions.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on skills people can use at home. She has long experience helping people facing family conflict, parenting strain, and caregiving stress. Joan has worked with those impacted by trauma and abuse, chronic illness, and addiction-related family problems.
She has also supported people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, and complex grief. Joan has worked in community and social service settings and with teens in home and group home environments. That background informs how she structures practical plans and safety-focused steps when someone feels overwhelmed.
She pays close attention to building trust and clear communication. Her style is warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental. Joan emphasizes helping clients build their own support and coping tools, whether the goal is managing panic, improving communication, or navigating life changes.
She works in English and provides online formats to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Joan commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it focuses on taking steps that match what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior, and it teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful reactions, and manage mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joan will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and daily life, and then try methods that fit those needs. She checks in over time and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and options for those who prefer typing over talking. These formats help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment schedules while accessing licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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