Joan Holmes, LPC

Joan Holmes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in New Jersey with 25 years of counseling experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, family concerns, grief, depression, parenting strain, relationship problems, and trauma. Joan also supports people facing workplace stress, caregiver fatigue, and life transitions.

Her work is grounded in a client-centered style that keeps the person's priorities first. Joan listens closely and uses that listening to guide the session. She focuses on building rapport so people can talk about painful or personal feelings without feeling judged.

Over her career Joan has worked in nonprofit social services and in home-based settings. She has experience supporting families who are grieving, adults with serious depression or suicidal behavior, and children on the autism spectrum and their family members. She has also worked with teens in group homes and with people navigating adoption, abandonment, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and divorce.

Clinically, Joan draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She integrates these methods with patient listening and practical problem solving to help people manage emotions, improve communication, and find coping strategies that fit everyday life.

If you are an adult handling family strain, parenting pressures, or major life changes, Joan offers a steady, experience-based approach. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

How Joan’s approaches translate to online work