Joy Austin

Therapist location: The Ross Center - Hendersonville
Option for Telehealth: Yes
​Credentials: Master's degree - Counseling
Therapy focus: Individual Therapy of all ages

Joy Austin has a Master of Arts degree in Counseling. She uses narrative therapy, play therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy for individual clients of all ages. Joy also has a therapy cat named Faith who helps clients who wish to cuddle with her to make sure they feel loved. 

Joy also manages a therapy group for middle school-aged girls who are struggling with bullying or making friends.

Joy hopes to give her therapy clients hope that things can change for the better, and strives to empower them with the tools they need to make those changes happen. Joy focuses on narrative therapy because it is about looking at one's life story thus far so that they may decide how to write their own next chapter. 

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