Joan Dewey, LCSW

Joan Dewey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 28 years of experience. She practices in Arizona and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and anger among other concerns. Joan emphasizes clear communication and practical steps people can use right away.

She focuses on helping people repair relationships and manage difficult emotions. That includes work on intimacy issues, parenting stresses, career pressures, and coping with big life changes. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and struggles tied to identity such as LGBT issues.

Joan uses approaches that invite people to tell their stories and to make sense of how past experiences affect current reactions. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns. She also uses client-centered listening so people feel heard while they try new ways of responding.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of the practical side of her work. Joan helps people notice thought patterns that fuel anger, anxiety, or low mood and then practices different responses. Mindfulness techniques are used to bring attention back to the present and reduce reactivity.

She includes motivational interviewing when people need extra support making changes, and narrative techniques to rewrite harmful self-beliefs. Joan encourages small, realistic steps toward better communication and less frequent outbursts. The focus is on what people can do differently in day-to-day life rather than labels or quick fixes.

How Joan’s therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions