- Grief support
- Blended family work
- Stress management
About Joyce
Joyce Tanner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience based in California. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, career concerns, family issues, and depression, and lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.
She draws on long clinical experience across multiple states and settings. That includes work with blended families, adoptive and foster family assessments, and consulting roles that supported military individuals and their relatives. Her background also includes grief work, crisis support, and stress management.
In sessions she listens to life stories and helps people notice strengths and patterns. She uses practical approaches to increase self-awareness and to address problems that repeat in relationships and at work. Conversations often include goal setting, coping skills, and managing transitions.
Tanner has training and experience in areas such as family group conferences, couples communication, and parent facilitation, which she has applied in clinical and consulting roles. She also has worked with issues like codependency, commitment and communication problems, infidelity, and forgiveness.
Her clinical foundation includes gestalt influences, reality therapy, re-decision making, and strategies for handling compassion fatigue. Outside of work she values family time, walking, music, and conversation, and notes that moving between states helped her sharpen practical coping skills.
People looking for help with guilt, shame, or related family and life changes can follow the site's booking steps to begin the matching process and schedule an initial meeting.
How therapeutic methods translate to online sessions
Joyce Tanner works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses centers on increasing self-awareness and identifying unhelpful patterns; this involves talking through recent situations and noticing recurring thoughts and behaviors that feed guilt or shame. Another approach draws from reality-based strategies that concentrate on present choices and building concrete coping skills for stress, anxiety, and relationship strains.Finding the right method is collaborative. The therapist and client review goals, personal preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try approaches and adjust them as needed rather than committing to a single method at the start.
Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or sessions that do not require travel. Video or phone work can reduce time spent commuting and help keep therapy consistent around work and family responsibilities. Licensed professionals tailor the pace and focus to what the client needs while taking practical constraints into account.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
30+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, career concerns, family issues, and depression, and also lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to increase self-awareness, identify patterns, and work on coping strategies related to regret, family conflict, or life transitions.
What is her professional background?
She has 30 years of clinical experience, including counseling, consulting, and training roles across multiple states and work with military-connected clients in a counseling capacity.
What credential does she hold and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule an initial session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.