Joy Close, LCSW

Joy Close is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 28 years of experience who helps adults facing anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She works with people dealing with relationship strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and concerns tied to aging and geriatric issues. Joy emphasizes creating a respectful space where clients feel heard and understood.

Her style is collaborative and practical. She helps people learn new coping skills, clarify values, and try strategies that fit their daily life. Sessions focus on what matters to each person and on building steps that produce small, steady improvements.

Joy draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape sessions to the individual. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to reconnect people with what they care about. Client-centered work makes room for each person’s pace and perspective. Mindfulness practices are offered when helpful to reduce stress and boost awareness.

Over nearly three decades she has worked with adults from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. She identifies as LGBTQIA+ affirming, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and sex positive, and brings that outlook into conversations about identity and relationships. Her experience includes supporting people with trauma, addiction, caregiver strain, cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and veteran-related issues.

Joy aims to help clients build stronger coping, clearer direction, and better day-to-day functioning. People who want a respectful, values-focused approach may find her practical guidance helpful.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Joy integrates acceptance and commitment therapy and client-centered methods to shape online sessions. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. This can help with anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the client’s own experience and pace, giving people room to talk through what matters without pressure.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to choose methods that fit the person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time if something isn’t helping.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which online formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer ways to keep continuity of care during health or mobility challenges. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and activities to match everyday schedules and practical constraints.