Joy Draper, LCSW
About me
I am licensed in Texas with 15 years of professional work experience helping individuals navigate life's challenges with compassion, honesty, and practical support. I specialize in helping clients with stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, major life transitions, coping with addictions, motivation, self esteem, and confidence, & depression. I work with my clients to create an open and safe environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey.
Whether you feel overwhelmed, stuck, emotionally exhausted, or simply ready for change, my goal is to help you feel heard, empowered and supported on your journey toward healing and JOY.
Professional experience
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, Avoidant personality, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Post-traumatic stress, Prejudice and discrimination, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-love, Sexual assault and abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
License information
TX LCSW 55053