About Joelle
Joelle Doherty is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who helps people work through stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and family strain, anger, and life changes. She draws on two decades of experience in mental health and substance abuse settings to offer steady support and practical tools.
Her approach is calm and straightforward, focused on listening and helping people shift unhelpful patterns. Joelle uses a strength-based outlook that builds on what’s already working in a person’s life.
Background and approach
She offers a positive and supportive space where clients can talk through worries and begin to try different ways of coping. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. Her background includes community mental health centers, partial hospitalization programs, inpatient psychiatric units, and college counseling centers.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Florida and a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University. In the room she mixes client-centered listening with practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She also draws from supportive therapy and mindfulness methods to help people notice thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and make realistic changes.
Joelle aims to help clients recognize strengths while addressing obstacles that get in the way of feeling satisfied. Her sessions are designed to be approachable and useful from the first meeting onward.
How Joelle’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. It focuses on empathy, acceptance, and supporting clients to find their own solutions, which can help with anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship strain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses simple exercises and practice between sessions to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Joelle collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, challenges, and daily life. She adapts techniques as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins and brief reflections between full sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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