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Therapist in Kansas City, Missouri Joy Jones, Therapist

Gender Identity: Female (She/Her)

Ages Served: 15-75+

Appointments: In-office and Online

Manages Medications: No, provides therapy only

Accepts Insurance: Yes - View accepted plans

Joy Jones, Therapist

Joy Jones, LCSW

Specializes In:

Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
Personality disorders
Sexual trauma
Trauma & PTSD
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Joy Jones, LCSW, helps individuals and families across Missouri and Kansas navigate life’s challenges with compassionate, evidence-based mental health care. She works with adolescents, young adults, adults, and seniors, offering support that is grounded in both clinical expertise and genuine human connection. Whether someone is dealing with anxiety, processing trauma, or going through a major life transition, Joy partners with her clients to foster personal growth, healing, and resilience. She provides individual, couples, family, and group therapy in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Joy has a strong passion for working with clients facing alcohol and drug use issues, including those in recovery or actively seeking sobriety. She recognizes the complexities of addiction and the importance of individualized care in treating substance use. Joy also supports clients managing PTSD and trauma-related symptoms, using interventions like EMDR, CBT, and DBT to help individuals process difficult experiences and reclaim their lives. She is also highly attuned to the emotional toll of midlife and later life transitions, offering compassionate guidance to clients navigating identity shifts, health changes, or losses that come with aging.

Joy is experienced in working with a variety of populations, including LGBTQ+ individuals, those with developmental disabilities, and people with a history in the adoption or foster care system. She brings a trauma-informed, strengths-based perspective to all her sessions, ensuring that every person feels seen, heard, and respected.

Outside of her work at LifeStance Health, Joy enjoys staying active through exercise and exploring new places through travel. She brings warmth, curiosity, and a strong sense of purpose to every client interaction.

Types of Care & Ages Served

Areas of Focus

Individual Therapy

Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.

  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Sexual trauma
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Brain/head injuries (TBI)
  • Bullying or harassment
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Conditions caused by stress
  • Dementia & memory issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Eating issues: binging
  • Eating issues: food deprivation
  • Eating issues: purging/regurgitating
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gambling
  • Gender identity
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hallucinations
  • Hoarding
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other addictive behaviors
  • Other neurological conditions
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Pornography/sexual behaviors
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • School avoidance
  • Self-esteem
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Stroke-related conditions
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs
  • Video game/internet

Family Therapy

Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.

  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Sexual trauma
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Brain/head injuries (TBI)
  • Bullying or harassment
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Caregiving
  • Conditions caused by stress
  • Dementia & memory issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Eating issues: binging
  • Eating issues: food deprivation
  • Eating issues: purging/regurgitating
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gambling
  • Gender identity
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hoarding
  • Intellectual challenges: generally independent
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other addictive behaviors
  • Other neurological conditions
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Pornography/sexual behaviors
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Retirement
  • School avoidance
  • Self-esteem
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Stroke-related conditions
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Video game/internet

Couples Therapy

Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.

  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Sexual trauma
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anger issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Autism: generally independent
  • Autism: requires some assistance
  • Autism: requires substantial support
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Body image
  • Brain/head injuries (TBI)
  • Bullying or harassment
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Conditions caused by stress
  • Dementia & memory issues
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Eating issues: binging
  • Eating issues: food deprivation
  • Eating issues: purging/regurgitating
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • Family conflict
  • Fertility
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gambling
  • Gender identity
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hoarding
  • Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
  • Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
  • Intense mood changes
  • Learning challenges
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other addictive behaviors
  • Other neurological conditions
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Pornography/sexual behaviors
  • Post-partum depression & anxiety
  • Pre-conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy loss
  • Premarital counseling
  • Retirement
  • School avoidance
  • Self-esteem
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Stroke-related conditions
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Video game/internet

Languages

  • English

Education

  • University of Missouri-Kansas City

FAQs

Please call us at 816-827-5110 to schedule an appointment with Joy Jones.

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