About Joan
Joan Dewey helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or problems with substance use. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, career pressure, ADHD, and body image or eating-related struggles. Joan offers calm, practical guidance so clients can take steps forward one at a time.
Joan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 28 years of experience. She practices in Arizona and brings a straightforward, respectful approach to sessions.
How Joan works
Her style centers on listening carefully, asking helpful questions, and working with each person at their own pace. She combines several approaches depending on a person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections. Client-centered work emphasizes the person’s own goals and values. Joan often uses mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing to support change.
She helps people build better communication and stronger coping skills. Practical tools are paired with understanding the life context that shapes problems. Her experience includes supporting people after loss, those coping with trauma or domestic violence, and people navigating complicated family or adoption histories.
Joan also works with chronic illness, addiction recovery, compassion fatigue, and disruptions in mood or sleep. Therapy sessions focus on real-world steps clients can try between meetings. Joan aims to help people reduce distress, repair relationships, and regain a sense of control over daily life.
Joan lists 9 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.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How Joan’s Approaches Work Online
Joan uses approaches that translate well to online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts and actions that keep problems going and replaces them with practical steps people can try between sessions. Attachment-based work examines patterns in close relationships and helps people build healthier ways of connecting.Client-centered therapy gives people space to set the pace and goals for work together. Joan collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and preferences. Together they check progress and adjust techniques as goals evolve so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual connection for role plays or communication practice. Phone sessions can work better when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coping prompts, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options increase flexibility and help people keep momentum between sessions.
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