About Joan
Joan Dewey is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief and relationship concerns. She brings calm, down-to-earth guidance and practical steps so parents and individuals can manage daily struggles and feel steadier. Joan works from Arizona and communicates in English.
Joan draws on nearly three decades of experience in community and clinical settings. She listens first and then helps people sort priorities and set small, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, coping with loss or trauma, and finding steadier routines for sleep, eating, and mood. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and cognitive tools. That means attention to how relationships shape feelings, plus hands-on strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used to build awareness and support motivation for change. Joan has worked with people who face complex life challenges including trauma, chronic illness, parenting stress, substance use, and identity-related concerns. She supports exploration of life changes like divorce, adoption and blended family dynamics, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment patterns.
Therapy with Joan typically involves compassionate, respectful conversation paired with practical skill-building. She helps people practice new ways of coping between sessions and track progress over time. Getting started follows a straightforward process through the site’s matching and scheduling tools.
How Joan’s Approaches Work Online
Joan uses client-centered listening to understand each person’s needs and goals. This approach focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, and helps shape sessions around what matters most to the client.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviors. CBT teaches practical skills to reframe unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and mood regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Joan collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and adjusts the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone calls can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, and flexible ways to practice skills. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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