About Joan
Joan Carie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than two decades of practice. She offers steady, compassionate support for people facing hard moments. Her style is straightforward and warm, and she aims to make therapy feel doable and relevant to daily life.
Joan focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and ADHD. She also helps with grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, and challenges around self-esteem and intimacy.
Background and approach
Clients who need help navigating work changes, parenting strain, or relationship tension may find practical tools and clear steps in sessions. Her approach blends several established methods to match each person's needs. Joan uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and client-centered work to follow a person's priorities.
She integrates acceptance and commitment ideas to help people act in line with their values during hard moments. Sessions emphasize learning doable skills and trying them between meetings. Joan uses emotion-focused ideas when relationships or attachment patterns are part of the problem, and she brings behavioral strategies for anger, compulsive behaviors, and addiction-related work.
She aims for brief, clear goals and steady progress rather than vague promises. Joan practices from Indiana and works with English-speaking clients. She can connect with people across regions, and sessions are offered online in formats that fit varied schedules.
The initial step is a short matching questionnaire to set up the first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches straightforward techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and compulsive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joan will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals and daily realities. She checks in on what is or isn’t working and adjusts plans so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and make it simpler to practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- 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
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