Joan Holmes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 25 years of experience.
01About Joan
Joan Holmes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. She focuses on building trust and steady support while listening carefully to what each person brings to a session. Her approach centers on respect and patience to help people talk through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship concerns.
She draws on client-centered work to meet people where they are and to shape the pace of therapy around their needs.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are used to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, manageable changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. Attachment-Based Therapy informs how she looks at relationship patterns and early bonds.
Joan has worked in community agencies, group home settings, and in clients' homes. That background includes supporting people facing complicated family dynamics, grief and bereavement, autism spectrum concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and life transitions. She has experience with teens, adults, and individuals navigating parenting and blended-family issues.
Sessions tend to focus on clear, practical steps and a steady listening presence. She helps people develop coping tools for anger, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Joan aims to create a respectful space where clients can name problems and try new ways of handling them.
Over her career she has supported people through separation, adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment issues, and communication problems. Her goal is to help clients build more satisfying, manageable lives through steady, person-focused work.
02Credentials
- LPC (New Jersey)
- License 37PC00303100 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1770171381 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Joan names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Joan names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Approaches that guide online work and goals
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses small experiments to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for stress, anger, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current relationship patterns and helps people try new ways of connecting and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to review goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. That collaborative planning helps choose which methods to emphasize and how quickly to move between skill-building and deeper exploration.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and have longer sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or skill practice possible between longer meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to match to daily life.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Joan commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and relationship challenges, LGBT issues, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is mainly client-centered with an emphasis on patient listening. She also uses approaches like CBT, ACT, DBT, and attachment-informed work to shape practical strategies.
What is her background and experience?
She has 25 years in the counseling field, including work in nonprofit social services, group home settings, and in-home family support. That work involved grief, bereavement, and supporting people with autism spectrum needs.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a New Jersey LPC credential and practices from New Jersey.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Joan offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online therapy.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. Then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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