- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
- Trauma-focused work
About Joy
Joy Nyhuis-Wing is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Wisconsin with 27 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, anger, grief, self-esteem challenges, depression, and ADHD, and she lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.
Joy favors straightforward conversation in sessions. She adapts what happens in the room to each person’s needs, and she listens for the practical problems behind difficult feelings. Sessions often involve learning skills to manage intense emotions and addressing patterns that keep someone stuck.
She uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help people with strong emotions and impulsive reactions. Joy also incorporates mindfulness practices to build moment-to-moment awareness and to reduce reactivity. For people processing past harm, she draws on trauma-focused therapy methods to work through painful memories in a paced way.
Her work often looks at attachment and abandonment themes, caregiver stress, and issues of forgiveness and guilt. She pays attention to how relational histories and current stressors interact with mood, panic, and social anxiety symptoms.
Joy frames therapeutic change as step-by-step work. She helps people identify small, concrete changes they can test between sessions. That practical focus is meant to make overwhelming problems feel more manageable and to clarify what helps most over time.
How her approaches translate to online work
Joy uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance techniques. DBT work usually involves practicing specific strategies for handling intense feelings and learning ways to respond differently to crises. Mindfulness Therapy is used to build present-moment awareness and reduce automatic reactivity; that can include short guided attention exercises and simple daily practices. Trauma-Focused Therapy involves paced processing of painful memories while building safety and coping skills, so the work moves at a person’s pace.Choosing an approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the focus based on what helps. The point is to find a practical fit rather than forcing a single method.
The listing does not specify session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow focused check-ins between other obligations. Some approaches, like brief DBT skills practice or mindfulness exercises, adapt well to remote sessions and can be used to practice skills between meetings.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
27+ years
Listed in
Wisconsin
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, grief, parenting concerns, self-esteem problems, depression, ADHD, and related issues such as guilt and shame.
How does she approach therapy?
She uses practical conversation, DBT skills, mindfulness, and trauma-focused methods to help people manage emotions and process difficult memories.
How many years has she been practicing?
She has 27 years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Wisconsin and practices in that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.