About Nan
Nan Joy is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers steady, respectful support and practical ways to cope. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients take the next step toward feeling better.
With 21 years of experience in Washington, Nan works with a wide range of concerns including depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and relationship struggles. She also helps people facing grief, intimacy issues, parenting stress, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work around codependency, abandonment, infidelity, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Narrative and person-centered approaches shape how she listens and responds. That means sessions focus on each person’s story and what matters most to them.
Nan adapts conversation and exercises to meet individual needs rather than following a rigid script. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together. She pays attention to patterns from family of origin, cultural background, and identity concerns when relevant.
Practical strategies and reflective talk are used side by side to address mood, behavior, and relationship patterns. Nan emphasizes clear, compassionate communication and steady guidance through difficult moments. Her aim is to help people build skills to manage anxiety, regain confidence, and find clearer direction in their lives.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting back what matters to you so you feel understood. It helps when anxiety or stress feels overwhelming because the therapist follows your lead and supports your goals.Existential Therapy looks at big life questions and personal meaning. It can be useful for people coping with life changes, loss, or doubts about direction and purpose. Sessions encourage honest exploration of values and choices.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages. It helps uncover how past experiences shape present behavior and emotions, which can reduce repetitive anxiety or relationship problems over time.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most helpful based on personal goals, needs, and preferences. Goals and methods can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can fit a break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent when life is busy or schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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