About Joan
Joan Becket is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 26 years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy in a relaxed, down-to-earth way and speaks plainly with clients. Joan brings warmth, directness, and a faith-informed perspective to sessions.
She combines Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Solution-Focused ideas to address relationship and family concerns. Joan helps people facing grief, depression, anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping struggles, parenting challenges, and self-esteem concerns.
How Joan works
Her background includes long-term work with children and complex family situations in community and government settings. That experience informs how she looks at family of origin, attachment, and patterns that repeat across generations. Joan also has experience supervising other clinicians and handling sensitive, high-needs cases.
In sessions she often points out patterns, asks practical questions, and offers tools people can try between meetings. She uses straightforward feedback and occasional humor to keep the work grounded and relatable. Faith and spiritual beliefs can be part of the conversation when clients wish to include them.
Joan works with specific issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, codependency, commitment and control issues, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue. Her goal is to help people understand how their past shapes present behavior and to support manageable steps toward change.
Joan lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Joan works with
The areas below are the ones Joan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Joan blends Attachment-Based Therapy with Client-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas to shape online work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and helps people notice patterns in trust and closeness. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping clients find their own solutions through supportive conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Joan will work with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. Clients may move between insight-focused work and practical skill-building as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler for a quick check-in. Live chat or text messaging support shorter exchanges and ongoing reflection between scheduled meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and accessibility for people seeking support.
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