About Joyce
Dr. Joyce Love is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 35 years of clinical experience. She practices in Florida and focuses on helping people find clearer direction during stressful times.
She aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through pressing concerns and consider change. Her work emphasizes listening first. She uses a nonjudgmental, curious stance to learn what matters to each person.
This helps her shape sessions around feelings, expectations, and practical goals rather than a one-size approach.
How Joyce works
Joyce draws on several ways of working, then tailors what she uses to the person in front of her. Sessions can include talking about attachment patterns, exploring personal meaning, and working on emotional connection. She also incorporates narrative techniques to reframe life stories and client-centered methods that focus on the client's priorities.
Parents and professionals often come for help with stress, anxiety, career shifts, grief, or relationship strains. She also supports people facing addiction, eating concerns, anger, ADHD symptoms, and intimacy issues. Additional focuses include abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress, body image, and separation or divorce.
Her style is steady and practical. Joyce works alongside clients to set realistic steps, test what helps, and adjust plans as needed. She encourages small changes that add up into clearer choices and greater emotional balance.
Therapy sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Joyce lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Joyce works with
The areas below are the ones Joyce selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Online approaches that focus on attachment and emotion
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of relating affect present relationships and emotional reactions. It helps people understand recurring hurts and build more supported ways of connecting with others. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and supports self-directed change in areas like self-esteem and coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and recommend methods based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different ways of working until something fits.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or fitting a session into a busy day. These formats help people sustain regular work and make therapy fit daily life.
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