About Joan
Joan Holmes is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience. She practices in New Jersey and brings a calm, patient presence to sessions. Joan listens carefully and helps people talk through stress and anxiety in everyday terms.
She uses a client-centered style that keeps each persons needs first. Joan focuses on building trust and a strong working relationship. She helps clients name feelings, sort priorities, and try manageable steps between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. She has worked with individuals experiencing depression, compassion fatigue, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Joan also has experience helping those facing challenges around family dynamics, parenting, adoption and foster care concerns, and caregiving stress.
Joan has worked in community and nonprofit settings and has supported teens and adults in home and group home environments. She has supported people on the autism spectrum and those coping with chronic illness and disability. Practical problem solving and steady listening are central to her work.
Clients can expect straightforward talk, guided planning, and coping tools drawn from approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based practices. Joan aims to help people build routines that ease anxiety and improve daily functioning. She invites people to take small steps toward clearer goals and better balance.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Joan draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build values-based routines. CBT offers practical steps to challenge negative thoughts and try new behaviors, which can ease anxiety and improve daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them and then taking action toward what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Joan works collaboratively to identify which strategies fit a persons goals and preferences. She checks in about what feels useful and adjusts the plan together so progress is practical and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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