Joan Carie, LCSW
Compassionate therapist blending body and talk approaches
About Joan
Joan Carie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 22 years of practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, bipolar concerns, and grief. Joan brings a calm, straightforward presence to sessions and focuses on practical steps that make life easier day to day.
Her background includes a long history of supporting people through trauma and life transitions. She uses a mix of talk-based and body-informed approaches, including somatic techniques, to help clients notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and Jungian ideas to shape a plan that fits each person. Joan aims to build a respectful, down-to-earth working relationship. She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, manageable goals.
Sessions combine reflection, skills practice, and grounding strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve coping. Her practice makes room for complex issues like compassion fatigue, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, career pressure, and ADHD-related challenges. Joan pays attention to patterns in relationships and emotions and helps clients experiment with new ways of responding.
Located in Indiana, she offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. She supports people who want steady, practical help and a therapist who will meet them where they are.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on how emotions and memory show up in the body. In online sessions this might mean guided breath work, tracking physical sensations, and using grounding exercises to reduce tension and panic. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and commit to small actions that fit those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety and depression.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will check in about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they may try approaches in session and adjust plans based on what helps most in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when video isn't possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can support check-ins, skill practice, and brief grounding between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity of care across locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English