About Joan
Joan Carie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She practices in Indiana and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bipolar disorder, and other life challenges. Joan uses clear, practical methods in sessions.
She blends well-known approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to match each person’s needs. Conversations focus on what feels most urgent and what can change next.
How Joan works
Her style is warm and straightforward. Joan listens for strengths and builds small, steady steps toward goals. She emphasizes skills people can use between sessions to reduce distress and increase daily functioning.
Joan has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stresses, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to life transitions and the emotional consequences that follow them. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
Joan helps people clarify values, practice new responses to old patterns, and create practical routines that support change. She aims to make therapy feel useful and relevant to everyday life.
Joan lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching acceptance of difficult thoughts alongside committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, addiction-related behaviors, and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and attachment patterns to improve how people relate to themselves and others, which can support intimacy and relationship-related distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joan will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort. She adapts plans over time based on what is helping and what feels doable.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between scheduled sessions. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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