Joan Dewey, LCSW
Licensed in Arizona · 28 years in practice
Joan Dewey welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or difficult life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, Arizona
- LCSW-18507 · expires February 2026
- LCSW, Alaska
- CSWS632 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1093925406 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
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About Joan
Joan Dewey welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or difficult life changes. She focuses on everyday problems like sleep and eating struggles, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy worries, and the push-pull of addiction or mood challenges. Joan is a licensed clinical social worker, and she brings nearly three decades of experience to sessions.
Joan blends straightforward talk with practical tools. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful patterns and to try small, workable changes.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to help people feel understood and to build stronger relationships. Her work often addresses the fallout from trauma, loss, or long-term stress. Joan helps people sort through painful memories, process grief, and reduce day-to-day anxiety.
She also supports folks dealing with chronic pain, body image concerns, ADHD, or challenges tied to adoption and foster care. Sessions aim to strengthen communication and coping skills. Joan uses motivational interviewing to help people find their reasons for change and to set realistic goals.
Mindfulness methods are offered for grounding and managing intense emotions. Clients can expect a calm, respectful approach that emphasizes the person’s strengths and choices. Joan has provided social work services across different settings over 28 years, and she works with people in Arizona by offering a range of online session formats.
She encourages starting with small steps and building from there.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joan names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Joan commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and improve mood. CBT is useful for sleep and eating issues, anxiety, and coping with depression. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current reactions and to strengthen communication in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joan treats the process as collaborative and will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on thought-based exercises, relationship patterns, mindfulness practice, or a mix of methods.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues and do structured exercises in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options let people keep therapy going around work, family, or other commitments while trying different techniques offered by a licensed professional.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Joan commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, trauma and related relationship or intimacy issues. She also addresses parenting, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and career stress.
What is Joan's therapy style like?
Her style is respectful and compassionate with an emphasis on listening. She blends client-centered conversation with practical techniques to help people make changes.
How much experience does she have?
Joan has 28 years of experience working in social work and psychotherapy settings. That background includes work with trauma, grief, addictions, and long-term stress.
Where is Joan licensed and located?
She is a licensed clinical social worker holding AK LCSW and AZ LCSW credentials and practices with clients in Arizona.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Joan works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and subscriptions work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Joan?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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