About Joan
Joan Carie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 22 years of experience. She brings long-term practice to people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, mood concerns and major life changes. Joan aims to make the first contact feel straightforward and understandable for a worried parent or individual.
Joan uses plain, evidence-informed approaches to help people learn new ways to cope. She listens closely and builds plans that match a person's life and goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer thinking, and emotion management rather than jargon. Her background includes extensive clinical work across many settings in Indiana. Joan pairs traditional talk therapy with techniques drawn from acceptance and mindfulness-based practices and emotion-focused work.
She draws on her experience to tailor sessions to each person's needs. In a session Joan helps people spot unhelpful patterns, practice small changes, and rehearse different responses. She also supports managing relationships, parenting strain, and career-related stress.
Conversations often include simple homework and behavioral experiments to try between sessions. People who appreciate a direct, warm approach tend to fit well with Joan's style. She emphasizes collaboration and clear next steps.
If you want a therapist who combines steady experience with practical tools, Joan offers that steady presence in sessions.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and getting unstuck from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns that fuel distress and testing new behaviors to change outcomes. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and managing mood swings.Finding the right approach often takes time and teamwork. Joan will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels manageable. Together they decide which tools to try first and adjust the plan as progress happens, keeping the client's preferences in mind.
Online therapy with Joan uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting routines while keeping care consistent and flexible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English