Joan Dewey

Joan Dewey is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and major life changes. She writes in plain terms and listens for what matters most to each person. Joan aims to create a supportive space where people can talk about difficult events and begin making small, practical changes.

Joan has practiced for many years in Arizona and holds LCSW licensure. She draws on straightforward, skills-based methods to help with sleep, eating concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and coping with trauma. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, career shifts, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

Her approach centers on understanding how a person’s relationships and environment shape their challenges. Joan uses attachment-based ideas to look at how connections influence feelings and behavior. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical new behaviors.

Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven into sessions when they fit a person’s goals. Joan often uses narrative strategies to help people tell and reframe their stories about loss, abandonment, adoption, or difficult past events.

She has experience supporting people after traumatic events, including coping with natural or human-caused disaster and domestic violence. Joan emphasizes clear communication, realistic goals, and steady progress so people can feel more in control of daily life.

To begin, she asks people to share what they want to change and then helps build a plan that fits their pace and priorities.

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