Joyce Tanner, LCSW

Joyce Tanner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with three decades of clinical experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life transitions and relationship challenges. She holds additional certifications in life and career coaching, family group conferences, couples communication, and parent facilitation, and she draws on this blended background to offer practical, strengths-based guidance for issues such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and career concerns.

Her practice has included work across multiple U.S. states and recent service as a Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor, providing counseling and training for military members and their families. Joyce specializes in supporting blended families and assessing foster and adoptive placements, offering focused help around family reunification, communication problems, and blended family dynamics.

Joyce uses a range of evidence-informed methods to address trauma, crisis, grief, and compassion fatigue while helping clients set goals, build coping skills, and manage life transitions. She values listening to each personâs story, identifying strengths, and encouraging increased self-awareness that supports healing and change. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from Huston-Tillotson University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Outside of her clinical work she enjoys spending time with family and friends, walking, music and conversation, and laughing with loved ones. A mother of three daughters, she draws on years of personal and professional experience adapting to change and believes that no one stands alone in their journey.

Trauma, Grief, and Stress-Focused Online Care

Joyce Tanner integrates trauma-informed approaches to help people process difficult experiences and reduce symptoms that follow traumatic events. This work focuses on safety, pacing, and building coping skills so clients can better manage stress and daily challenges. She also offers grief-focused counseling that helps individuals honor loss, navigate mourning, and find ways to adjust while preserving meaningful memories and relationships. In addition, Joyce uses stress management and reality-focused techniques to teach practical strategies for problem solving, goal setting, and improving day-to-day functioning.

Choosing the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Joyce collaborates with each client to determine the best fit based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She listens to each personâs story, identifies strengths and resources, and adapts methods over time so care feels relevant and achievable.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to receive consistent care around work and family commitments. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling, allow clients to meet from their own locations, and enable ongoing support from licensed professionals and therapists when in-person visits are difficult.