Joyce Tanner , LCSW

Joyce Tanner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience providing psychotherapy, consulting, and training. As an LCSW she holds a clinical social work license, which enables her to diagnose and treat emotional and behavioral concerns through evidence-informed therapeutic work. She is also certified in life and career coaching, family group conferences, couples communication, and as a parent facilitator, which support a practical, skills-based approach to relationship and career challenges.

Joyce has practiced in multiple states and more recently served as a Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor, offering counseling and training to military individuals and families. A particular focus of her work is blended families - helping stepfamilies build healthy, sustainable relationships - and assessing foster and adoptive families for readiness and reunification. Her clinical work spans grief and trauma, Gestalt approaches, crisis and stress management, re-decision making, reality therapy, compassion fatigue, career management, goal setting, anxiety, and life transitions.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, and a Master of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Outside her professional life, Joyce values family time, walking, meaningful conversations, music and singing, games, positive thinking, and laughter. A mother of three daughters, she brings compassion, resilience, and a practical orientation to helping people begin where they are on their life journey.