Joy Garrett, LPC
Practical therapy for strong emotions and life change
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Joy works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Joy
Joy Garrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who blends practical tools with a warm, respectful presence. She focuses on helping individuals navigate stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and major life changes in clear, down-to-earth ways. Her approach centers on helping people notice what matters most to them.
She uses straightforward strategies to manage strong emotions and unhelpful thinking. Sessions are meant to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Joy draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take small steps toward them. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns and develop new coping skills. Client-centered work means she follows the person's lead and prioritizes listening and empathy.
Over a decade of experience includes supporting people through grief, trauma and relationship challenges. She works with concerns such as addiction, body image, parenting strain, blended family issues, and communication or control problems. People meet her for help with attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, commitment fears, and the fallout of family-of-origin problems.
She also addresses conditions like Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder and co-occurring struggles when relevant. Joy practices from Oregon and conducts sessions in English. Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and goal-focused, aiming to equip people with skills they can use between sessions.
What Joy works with
Everything Joy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Joy's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client's lead so goals and pacing reflect the person's needs.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, preferences, and everyday life. That teamwork continues as progress is checked and methods are adjusted when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video allows more visual connection for deeper conversation, phone calls can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Joy
What concerns does this therapist help with?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, trauma and addictions, plus relationship and parenting strain.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, combining skills training with empathic listening to solve practical problems.
How long has she practiced?
Joy Garrett has ten years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Oregon.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the country work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can take place via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire to schedule.