Kelly Joyce
Compassionate support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kelly
Kelly Joyce is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with nine years of clinical experience in Ohio. She focuses on common family and parenting concerns like relationship strain, parenting stress, communication problems, and coping with life changes. She also helps with anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, eating struggles, addiction, and self-esteem issues.
Kelly trained at Youngstown State University with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in Social Work. Kelly draws on practical skills families can use right away.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and centered on what matters most to the person in front of her. She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
Her work is informed by attachment ideas and emotionally focused techniques to improve connection and communication. She is also trained in EMDR - eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - for trauma processing. Kelly describes herself as client-centered, meaning she follows the pace and goals set by the person seeking help.
Across her career she has worked in inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment, partial hospitalization programs, and outpatient settings. That range has shaped a flexible style that fits different family situations and life transitions. Outside of work she enjoys time with family, travel, true crime documentaries, and her cats.
How Kelly’s Approaches Shape Online Family Support
Kelly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and the actions that follow. CBT is practical and often focuses on small, doable steps to reduce anxiety, depression, and struggling patterns at home.She also draws from emotionally focused therapy to improve connection and communication. EFT centers on identifying emotions in relationships and creating new ways to respond that build trust and closeness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kelly will help clients choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and daily life, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into family schedules. These options allow for flexible scheduling, shorter check-ins when helpful, and consistent contact during transitions or busy periods. Many families find that having several ways to meet makes it simpler to practice skills between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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