About Noreen
Noreen Joyce is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 40 years of experience helping people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and trauma. She approaches each person with warmth and practical care. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what can change next.
She uses straightforward methods to ease symptoms and build coping skills. Sessions often combine talk-based guidance with tools from cognitive-behavioral approaches to shift patterns of thought and behavior.
Background and approach
EMDR and hypnotherapy are options for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Her background includes long experience with relationship and family of origin concerns, complicated bereavement, serious mental illness, and mood disorders. That experience informs how she frames treatment plans and sets realistic goals.
She draws on a mix of client-centered and existential ideas to help people find clearer meaning and direction. In sessions she works collaboratively to tailor an approach to each person’s situation. Expect practical strategies, paced exploration of difficult memories, and attention to immediate coping skills that can be used between visits.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase functioning in daily life. Noreen practices in Hawaii and offers work that recognizes the complexity of co-occurring issues such as addiction, chronic illness, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Conversations are offered in English and can include planning for life changes and career concerns when they arise.
Practical therapy approaches for online sessions
The practice draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and EMDR to address anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship while helping people clarify goals and values. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns. EMDR is used to process disturbing memories and reduce their emotional intensity when trauma is a central issue.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest a mix of methods. That collaborative planning means techniques can change over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging work well for quick updates, brief skill coaching, or when written reflection is helpful. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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