About Nan
Nan Joy is a Washington-based licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 21 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy struggles. Her approach is warm and respectful, aimed at helping each person take practical steps toward feeling better.
Nan shapes sessions around what matters to the individual. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and plans. That can include addressing grief, family of origin issues, or patterns like codependency and control issues.
How Nan works
She also helps with career concerns and life transitions. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's experience. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at repeated patterns, and existential approaches to address meaning, choices, and responsibility.
These approaches are used to understand feelings and to guide change in everyday life. Sessions can focus on specific problems such as obsessive or compulsive behaviors, substance use, infidelity fallout, or parenting strain. Nan pays attention to cultural background and multicultural concerns when relevant.
She also supports people managing anger, low self-esteem, dissociation, or mood disorders. People who reach out will find practical, conversational therapy. She helps with tools for coping and clearer decision-making.
The goal is steady progress you can notice between sessions.
Nan lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Nan works with
The areas below are the ones Nan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
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Online support options
How Nan’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person at the center of care. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the client name goals and strengths. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns where being heard matters.Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and time. It helps people notice long-standing habits and feelings that affect current choices, which can be useful for family of origin issues, chronic mood problems, and codependency.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Nan will collaborate with each person to decide which ideas to emphasize based on goals and what feels most helpful. That shared decision-making can shift as progress is made or needs change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send quick updates or continue work between longer sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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