Joan Dewey
Practical support for parents and caregivers
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona, Alaska
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joan
Joan Dewey is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping parents and caregivers facing everyday family challenges. She speaks plainly about stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, and difficulties that affect daily family life. Joan aims to make conversations feel manageable and practical for someone reading on a phone or juggling a busy household.
Her approach is warm and respectful. She draws on client-centered work to listen first and learn what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and try small, concrete behavioral steps. Joan has nearly three decades of experience and holds an LCSW license. She is licensed in Arizona as LCSW LCSW-18507 and also carries an Alaska license AK LCSW CSWS632.
That background informs how she understands stress, trauma, addiction, parenting, and a wide range of life changes. Sessions often focus on clear goals parents set together with Joan. She helps with communication skills, coping strategies, and steps for managing mood, sleep, or addictive behaviors.
She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns when those affect family dynamics. Clients can expect straightforward conversation about what to try between sessions. Joan works with tools from mindfulness and motivational interviewing when those methods fit a family's needs.
The aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Joan commonly blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people identify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps break down unhelpful thoughts and build small, practical habits to feel better and handle stress.She also draws on attachment-based ideas when relationships and family bonds are part of the concern. That approach looks at patterns in how people connect and helps families try new ways of relating to one another. Choosing the right approach is a joint process - Joan will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life.
The online format supports this collaborative work with several practical options. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone calls are available for simpler check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter questions or when schedules are tight. These formats aim to make therapy easier to fit into family life while still focusing on clear, step-by-step progress.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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