About Joyce
Dr. Joyce A. Griffin helps people facing phobias, anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, depression, and related concerns.
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with three decades of experience in Illinois and beyond. Joyce writes clear, practical plans and works in a direct, teaching style so clients leave with new tools to try between sessions. She favors straightforward methods that focus on problem solving.
Sessions include feedback, brief lessons, and homework tasks that support real-world coping.
Background and approach
Clients and the therapist build a simple treatment plan together and track progress over time. Her approach blends Client-Centered thinking with Cognitive Behavioral tools and solution-focused steps. When trauma is central, she draws on trauma-focused techniques to address painful memories and reactions.
She adapts methods to each person instead of using one fixed formula. Joyce has worked for 30 years and sometimes consults with trusted colleagues outside her area. That experience informs how she structures sessions and the kinds of strategies she offers.
She aims to keep work practical and actionable. She supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, first responder issues, addiction, ADHD, multicultural concerns, and phobias. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for online work.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person as an individual. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps people identify goals that matter to them. This approach is useful when someone needs acceptance and a space to name priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It breaks problems into small steps, uses homework exercises, and helps reduce anxiety, phobias, and stress through practice and gradual change.
Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and recommend methods to try. Clients and the therapist can adjust the plan if something does not fit or if priorities change over time.
Online sessions come in several practical formats: video calls for face-to-face work, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules and let people choose what feels most useful for practice and follow-up.
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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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