- Couples and Family Counseling: Joy successfully partners with couples/families to restore healthy levels of a relationship. Click here to learn more about treatment modalities.
- Individual Counseling: Joy has successfully collaborated with individuals to explore thoughts and feelings that may be holding them back. Therapy can empower one to achieve positive growth within desired areas. Joy employs different therapeutic modalities she bases upon individual needs. Click here to learn more about treatment modalities.
- Spiritual Direction: A partnering relationship that offers a listening presence, support and facilitation of spiritual awareness and exploration of God as present, compassionate, forgiving and generous. Joy does not impose her personal values or beliefs on anyone. She is a person of faith who can integrate faith and spiritual direction within the therapy process when this is helpful.
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): EMDR is a method of psychotherapy, extensively researched and found useful for the treatment of various forms of trauma. Along with other interventions, EMDR may significantly reduce the effects of anxiety, depression and panic attacks.
Our brains store fear based emotional memories. Trauma causes an over excitation of a specific area of the brain. Information is “frozen” in its original anxiety-producing form, which may include the original image, negative self-assessment, and emotion. When this cluster of information is triggered, intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, nightmares, somatic difficulties and other unwanted symptoms may occur, as in PTSD. EMDR is a therapeutic modality that desensitizes and integrates the “frozen” information, allowing the traumatic imagery to defuse, the negative emotion to neutralize, and cognitive restructuring to occur.
