About Joan
Joan Carie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in Indiana and brings steady, practical support for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, and relationship or life changes. Joan uses clear, direct strategies and listens for what matters most to each person.
She draws from several therapeutic approaches to build an individualized plan. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, clearer ways to handle strong emotions, and steps to reduce unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Conversations are guided by empathy, respect, and a practical focus on daily coping. Joan blends cognitive behavioral tools with acceptance-based ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-based actions. She also uses client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in each person's goals and experience.
This mix aims to make therapy feel relevant and doable. In-session work can include emotion regulation practice, behavioral experiments, and exploration of relationship patterns. Joan pays attention to how life transitions, grief, or caregiving stress affect daily functioning and mood.
She also addresses matters like intimacy, parenting stress, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Telehealth formats and messaging options are available for flexible care. Joan accepts English-speaking and international clients and helps people figure out the practical next steps.
If someone wants to begin, they are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
How Joan’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that line up with their values. It can help when anxiety or avoidance is limiting everyday life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and changing behaviors that cause problems.
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's own experience, using active listening and empathy to help them find their own solutions and priorities.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joan will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as needed so the work stays relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging offer quick check-ins, brief skill coaching, and flexible communication between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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