About Joy
Joy Garrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelming life changes. She keeps conversations direct and compassionate to make it easier for someone feeling stuck to name what matters and start planning small steps forward.
With ten years of experience, Joy draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and existential perspectives.
How Joy works
She adapts the pace and focus to each person's needs, aiming for clear tools that can be used between sessions. Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing new coping skills, and setting reachable goals. Joy has worked with people facing trauma, abuse, grief, and the practical fallout of relationship or family problems.
She also helps with addiction concerns, eating and body image struggles, and issues around attachment, abandonment, and codependency. Her approach emphasizes listening first, then offering concrete strategies to reduce distress. She pays attention to how family of origin, blended family situations, and caregiver stress shape daily life.
Communication problems, commitment issues, and feelings of emptiness are explored alongside anger, intimacy-related concerns, and parenting strains. Joy helps people sort priorities and make choices that match their values. Her work focuses on collaboration and steady progress.
She explains techniques plainly, checks that strategies feel doable, and revises plans when needed. People who want practical help for hard emotions and clearer next steps will find a straightforward, supportive style.
Joy lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Joy works with
The areas below are the ones Joy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Joy blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people build clearer paths forward. ACT helps a person notice painful thoughts and reconnect with values so actions match what matters most. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joy treats matching methods to a person’s goals as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about what feels useful and adjust techniques based on needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people keep visual connection and work on emotional skills in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to share brief updates or problem-solve between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules while working on stress, relationships, grief, and other concerns.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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