Joanne Stein, MD, LCSW-C
Maryland · 18 years in practice
Joanne Stein is a licensed therapist in Maryland who blends warmth and directness to help people make steady progress.
License and registration
- LCSW-C, Maryland
- 14743 · expires October 2027
- NPI
- 1699568337 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 18
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Joanne
Joanne Stein is a licensed therapist in Maryland who blends warmth and directness to help people make steady progress. She aims for practical change rather than perfection and brings 18 years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style can include humor, wit, and occasional swearing when it fits the moment.
You might also notice a cat or two in the background during video meetings. Joanne works with individuals on common struggles like stress, anxiety, and depression.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and family conflicts, parenting challenges, and intimacy concerns. Clients looking for support with motivation, self-esteem, career transitions, or coping with life changes will find straightforward, goal-minded guidance. Her practice addresses attention and memory difficulties, including ADHD, as well as addiction and recovery issues.
She supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, grief, anger, and mood disorders. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment concerns, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and workplace issues. Joanne combines several approaches to match each person’s needs, drawing on emotionally-focused strategies alongside client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and motivational methods.
Sessions aim to be practical, with clear steps clients can try between meetings. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on skills that fit daily life. Therapy is offered in English and is available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
Joanne uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joanne lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- ADHD
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Joanne names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and naming emotions that drive patterns in relationships and personal life. Online sessions using EFT help people notice emotional responses, try new ways of expressing needs, and build safer emotional connections with themselves and others.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, listening stance where the person sets the pace and priorities. In remote sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, offers reflections, and helps clarify goals and strengths so changes feel manageable.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors. Practically, this leads to short exercises and experiments to try between sessions, which work well across video, phone, chat, or text formats.
Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they shape a plan that may blend approaches and change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it simpler to continue work between appointments and to keep therapy practical and consistent.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Joanne often address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting challenges, plus issues like addiction, ADHD, grief, and career transitions.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is warm and direct, mixing humor and plain talk. She focuses on concrete steps and working toward steady progress.
What is her clinical background and experience?
Joanne has 18 years of clinical experience and holds MD and LCSW-C credentials. She has a long history of helping people across a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is Joanne located and licensed?
She is based in Maryland and practices there as a licensed clinician with the listed credentials MD and LCSW-C.
In what languages does she conduct sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she use?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
How does payment and cost work?
Sessions use a subscription model that varies with location and therapist arrangements, and the subscription can be canceled at any time.
How do I start working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, fill out a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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