About Joyce
Joyce Duval is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who brings 26 years of experience to her practice in Oregon. She also holds a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) credential in Washington. Joyce focuses on building a respectful, collaborative relationship and listening for what matters to each person she meets.
Her sessions are practical and down-to-earth. She listens for meaning and feeling, then helps people problem-solve and develop coping skills. Joyce uses straightforward techniques to manage anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Joyce draws on cognitive-behavioral tools and dialectical behavior therapy skills to help people change unhelpful patterns and learn new ways to respond. She blends this with client-centered work that keeps the person’s goals and values in view. Mindfulness practices are often used to bring greater calm and presence into everyday life.
She also addresses relationship strain, communication problems, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and life purpose. Joyce includes motivational interviewing when people want support making lasting changes, such as reducing addictive behaviors or improving work-life balance. In sessions Joyce aims to be warm and caring while helping people find concrete steps forward.
She supports people as they set goals and try out new skills. Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused, with an emphasis on usable tools and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Joyce commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. CBT breaks problems into small, manageable steps and teaches practical skills for everyday life.She also works with Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help people regulate emotions, tolerate distress, and improve interpersonal effectiveness. DBT offers concrete tools for coping in intense moments and for improving communication and boundaries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and which methods feel most useful. That collaborative process shapes session plans and the types of exercises or skill practice recommended.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit counseling into busy days and varied schedules while trying different formats to see what feels most effective.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English