About Joann
Joann Chavez-Holder is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works in Kentucky and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. Joann focuses on everyday problems like parenting strain, grief, anger, and low self-esteem as well as mood and attention concerns such as bipolar disorder and ADHD.
Her background includes long work with families to improve communication and reduce conflict.
Background and approach
That experience informs how she talks with parents about setting boundaries and building routines. She has supported people who have lived through trauma and abuse, using approaches that address painful memories without rushing the process. Joann blends cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and trauma-focused methods to help people develop new skills and feel more in control.
Sessions aim to teach simple tools for managing difficult thoughts and emotions. She adapts conversation and plans to match each person's goals and life situation. Her manner is warm and interactive.
She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels. Joann works collaboratively, helping people set small steps and celebrate progress as they learn healthier patterns. Seeking change is often hard, and Joann frames therapy as a partnership.
She supports people who want practical strategies, clearer communication, and relief from persistent worry. If someone is ready to try a new way forward, she helps create a workable plan and offers steady guidance along the way.
Approaches that translate to online care
Joann uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT focuses on practical skills you can use between sessions to reduce worry and handle daily stress. She also draws on trauma-focused therapy and EMDR principles to address painful memories and reduce their hold on everyday life, working at a pace that feels manageable.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Joann starts by asking about a person's goals, history, and what has or hasn't helped before. She tailors methods to preferences and adjusts plans over time so therapy fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make fitting therapy into life easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation and demonstration of skills, phone can be a good shorter check-in and needs less bandwidth, and chat or text supports brief check-ins or reflection between appointments. These options help people keep continuity of care when schedules, travel, or childcare make in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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