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Joy Adle

Compassionate guidance for life transitions

LMHC Florida

Experience
9 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages
English

About Joy

Joy Adle is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people navigate stressful transitions, anxiety, grief, addiction, and relationship challenges. She welcomes clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected and supports them in developing practical skills to shift unhelpful thoughts and emotional patterns.

Background and approach

With an emphasis on building inner strength and self-compassion, she helps clients move toward greater clarity and purpose. Her practice blends evidence-informed techniques with a holistic perspective.

Joy integrates cognitive behavioral approaches alongside mindfulness, attachment-aware work, and emotionally-focused strategies to address issues such as family conflict, trauma, codependency, and substance-related concerns. She draws on nine years of clinical experience and training, including work in addiction and family grief counseling, to tailor interventions that attend to mental, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Joy holds an LMHC and combines clinical knowledge with supportive guidance to help clients regain balance and progress toward their goals.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Joy often combines cognitive behavioral work with attachment-aware and client-centered methods to address practical patterns and relational wounds. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety, depression, or addictive patterns in place. Attachment-based work explores relational patterns and how early connections affect current relationships and emotional responses, which can be useful for family problems, codependency, and intimacy concerns. Client-centered techniques prioritize the client's perspective and foster a compassionate therapeutic relationship that supports self-exploration and growth.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to assess their goals, preferences, and needs and then blend methods to create an individualized plan. This flexibility means techniques can shift over time as progress unfolds and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people juggling schedules, caregiving, or mobility concerns. Video sessions allow for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions provide audio-only convenience, and live chat or text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins and brief interventions between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to fit meaningful therapeutic work into a busy life.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does Joy address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship struggles, depression, trauma and related concerns such as self-esteem, anger, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness, attachment-aware and emotionally-focused work to help change thought patterns and improve emotional regulation.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of experience, including seven years focused on addiction counseling and family grief work.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is an LMHC with license FL LMHC MH14012 and practices in Florida.
Does she offer services in other languages or accept international clients?
Sessions are conducted in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on their preference and availability.
How is cost handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are required to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Also works with

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyDivorce and separationDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposePost-traumatic stressSelf-loveWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

9+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English