About Joy
Joy Garrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress and anxiety and helps them find clearer ways to manage daily life. Her style is warm and respectful, aimed at practical change rather than jargon-filled therapy sessions.
She helps people cope with trauma and abuse, depression, grief, and major life changes. She also addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and struggles around parenting, caregiving, and blended family dynamics.
Background and approach
Concerns such as body image, codependency, abandonment, and attachment issues are included in her focus. Joy uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches to fit each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice their values and take committed steps toward them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her sessions are shaped by the person's goals and preferences. Conversations are straightforward and goal-focused, with room for emotion and meaning.
She aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions. Joy practices in Oregon and offers therapy in English. She supports people through a range of challenges including addictions, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, communication problems, and life transitions.
She encourages an honest, collaborative process to find what works for each person.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, committed actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, stuckness, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and some eating or anger-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides which methods are tried and adjusted over time in a collaborative way.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or a way to stay connected between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity through life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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