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Joy Adle, LMHC

  • Experience9 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Addictions, and Relationship
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Attachment-Based Therapy
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About Joy

Joy Adle is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people navigating stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She often works with individuals facing transitions who want to regain balance, rebuild hope, and strengthen self-compassion.

Background and approach

Joy emphasizes practical skill-building so clients can shift unhelpful thinking and emotional patterns that contribute to feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Drawing on nine years of clinical experience and graduate training in counseling and spiritual psychology, Joy integrates evidence-informed tools with mindfulness and relational insight.

Her work blends cognitive-behavioral techniques with attachment-aware perspectives and emotion-focused strategies to address relationship difficulties, trauma, and substance-related concerns. She also brings experience in family grief work and addiction counseling to support recovery and healing.

Joy favors a holistic approach that attends to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions, combining communication skills, mindfulness practices, and therapeutic interventions to restore clarity and motivation. Clients who seek support for self-esteem, compassion fatigue, life purpose, or family issues can expect a collaborative process aimed at increasing resilience and moving forward toward meaningful goals.

Integrating relational and skills-based approaches through online therapy

Joy draws on Internal Family Systems ideas to help clients notice and work with the different parts of themselves, which can be useful for managing internal conflict, shame, or patterns that fuel anxiety and addiction. Attachment-based concepts inform her focus on how early and current relationship dynamics shape emotion and safety, which can aid in repairing relational difficulties and strengthening connection. She also uses client-centered practices to create an accepting, collaborative space where a person's goals and values guide the work.

Choosing the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Joy partners with clients to explore what feels most helpful, adapting methods based on each person's needs, history, and goals rather than applying a single technique from the start.

Online therapy with Joy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and fit into varied schedules. These options can make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, or mobility needs, and they support ongoing skill practice between sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Joy commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Additional focus areas include codependency, caregiver stress, and post-traumatic stress.
What is her therapeutic style and approach?
Joy uses a collaborative, client-centered stance that blends cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, attachment-informed ideas, and emotionally-focused methods to help clients change patterns and build coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of experience, including seven years working in addiction counseling and family grief work as described in her background.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with the credential FL LMHC MH14012 and practices in Florida.
Does she provide services in languages other than English or accept international clients?
Sessions are offered in English only, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available for working together?
Joy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How are costs and payment handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsRelationship issuesGriefSelf esteem

Also works with

Family conflictsTrauma and abuseAnger managementDepressionCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

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