About Noreen
Noreen Joyce is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addiction. She works with individuals on relationship and family-of-origin concerns, parenting strain, intimacy and self-esteem, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood issues. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making therapy practical and understandable.
She begins by listening to what matters most and then builds a plan together.
How Noreen works
Sessions focus on clear goals, coping skills, and ways to change unhelpful patterns. Noreen draws on several approaches so she can match methods to each person's needs rather than using one fixed technique. Her main approaches include client-centered work that follows the person's pace, cognitive-behavioral tools for shifting thoughts and behaviors, and EMDR for processing traumatic memories.
She also uses existential ideas to help people clarify values and purpose. Hypnotherapy is another option she can offer when appropriate. Noreen's background includes long clinical experience in behavioral health and psychotherapy in Hawaii.
As an LCSW she has worked across many care settings and with a wide range of concerns over four decades. She communicates plainly and aims to make progress feel realistic. People come to Noreen when life feels stuck, painful, or overwhelming.
She focuses on practical steps, steady support, and helping people regain hope and direction. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled to fit different lifestyles.
Noreen lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Noreen works with
The areas below are the ones Noreen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Noreen uses client-centered work to follow each person's pace and priorities. That approach focuses on listening, empathy, and shaping sessions around what the person says matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. EMDR helps people process traumatic memories through guided attention and can reduce the emotional intensity of distressing events.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Noreen will help you identify which methods match your goals, needs, and preferences. Together you can try techniques, observe what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes or brief updates between sessions and can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care from different locations and schedules.
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