- CBT and DBT methods
- Emotion-focused work
- Parenting and attachment
About Joyce
Joyce Washington is an LMFT - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina with 14 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, intimacy challenges, anxiety, depression, and issues around self-esteem and stress. Joyce also lists support for LGBT clients, family challenges, and feelings of guilt and shame.
She uses straightforward, interactive sessions that focus on what is happening now. Conversations tend to be practical. She listens, offers honest feedback, and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions can include skills, reflective discussion, and short-term goal work.
Her background draws from cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. That mix lets her shift between skill-building, emotion work, and problem-solving depending on what a person needs. She also has experience addressing trauma and abuse in ways that consider relationship and family dynamics.
Joyce aims to help people identify strengths, clarify goals, and take steps that fit their lives. She supports parents with parenting strain and people dealing with separation, infidelity, blended family issues, caregiver stress, body image, and attachment concerns. Discussions may cover forgiveness, jealousy, isolation, and aging or geriatric topics.
People meet her for focused work on communication problems, codependency, and rebuilding intimacy. Her style favors active collaboration so clients leave sessions with concrete ideas to try between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Joyce commonly draws on cognitive-behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused therapy in her clinical work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaching practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and guilt-related beliefs. EFT centers on understanding and working with emotions in relationships to improve closeness and resolve recurring conflicts, which can be useful for intimacy and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods in session, and adjust the focus based on what helps the client make progress. That shared decision-making helps match skills work or emotion-focused work to the person’s needs and preferences.
The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm which formats are currently offered before booking. Many people find that remote sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Online work can allow quicker follow-up after difficult conversations and lets the therapist and client use visual or written tools during the session. Joyce will work with each person to set a practical plan that fits their daily life.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, parenting, intimacy-related issues, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, stress, and related family challenges. Guilt and shame are listed among her additional focus areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic approach?
Her approach is present and interactive, using cognitive-behavioral, dialectical, emotionally-focused, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. Sessions combine skills work, emotion processing, and practical problem solving.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience as a therapist working with a broad range of concerns, including trauma, family discord, and sexual functioning issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - licensed in North Carolina. Her practice is located in North Carolina.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How do costs and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.