Joy Close, LCSW

Joy Close is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 28 years of experience helping adults navigate emotional challenges and life transitions. She approaches therapy collaboratively, aiming to build a respectful, accepting space where people feel heard, valued, and able to engage in meaningful change. Her work focuses on helping individuals deepen self-understanding, develop practical coping skills, and find resolution for the concerns they bring.

Joy offers a highly personalized practice that draws from a range of therapeutic techniques to match each person’s needs and goals. She emphasizes a strengths-based, client-centered process that balances practical skill-building with exploration of underlying patterns and emotions. Her approach supports improvement in areas such as anxiety, depression, grief, family conflict, sexuality, adjustment, relationship concerns, and other life stressors.

Committed to social justice, Joy identifies as anti-racist and anti-sexist and provides LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive care. She works with adult clients from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds and strives to make therapy accessible and relevant to varied life experiences. Joy’s practice centers on respect, empowerment, and steady support for those seeking guidance and change.