About Joy
Joy Kelleher is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience who helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She aims to make counseling less intimidating by offering flexible formats and a practical, down-to-earth approach. Joy meets people where they are and focuses on clear, achievable steps toward their goals.
Her style is relational and strength-based. Sessions emphasize building on what already works for each person while addressing problems like grief, trauma, relationship strain, and workplace stress.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with addiction, compassion fatigue, and challenges related to identity and self-esteem. Joy uses a range of approaches to match a client's needs, including acceptance-based and cognitive strategies as well as mindfulness and narrative work. She helps clients notice patterns, set small goals, and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.
She has spent many years as a social worker, with a mix of domestic and international experience, and volunteers in her community, including coaching college athletes. That background informs a practical, lived perspective on transitions such as career change, parenting strain, and midlife shifts. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit varied schedules.
Joy practices in Georgia as an LCSW, CSW, and works in plain language so people can focus on progress without jargon.
How Joy’s approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. It often includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm, which can be helpful for stress, panic, and emotional overwhelm.Choosing an approach is collaborative. Joy will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your situation. Together you will track what helps and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and needs. Video calls are good for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Chat or text sessions allow quick check-ins, journaling-style exchanges, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while working on anxiety and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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