Joy Jones, LCSW,
About Joy Jones (She/Her)
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
- Individual Therapy: Ages 15-75+
- Family Therapy: Ages 15-75+
- Couples Therapy: Ages 18-75+
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 & related conditions
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- ADHD
- Aging
- Alcohol use
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Autism spectrum & neurodivergence
- Autism with developmental delay
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Conditions caused by stress
- Dementia & memory concerns
- 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
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gender identity & mental health
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hair pulling & skin picking
- Hallucinations
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability (caregiver-supported care)
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Men's health/issues
- Mental health changes after brain & head injuries
- Mental health during perimenopause
- Mental health related to pregnancy & reproductive health
- Mental health support for neurological conditions
- Mid-life transitions
- Military, veteran, and first responder mental health
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other addictive behaviors
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- 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 mental health conditions
- Unhealthy eating habits
- Unusual thoughts or beliefs
Family Therapy
Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.
- Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
- Personality disorders & related conditions
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- ADHD
- Aging
- Alcohol use
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Autism spectrum & neurodivergence
- Autism with developmental delay
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- Caregiving
- Conditions caused by stress
- Dementia & memory concerns
- 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
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gender identity & mental health
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hair pulling & skin picking
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability (caregiver-supported care)
- Intellectual disability (living independently)
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Men's health/issues
- Mental health changes after brain & head injuries
- Mental health during perimenopause
- Mental health related to pregnancy & reproductive health
- Mental health support for neurological conditions
- Mid-life transitions
- Military, veteran, and first responder mental health
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other addictive behaviors
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- 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 mental health conditions
- Unhealthy eating habits
Couples Therapy
Helps partners address relationship conflict and improve communication with a clinician's guidance.
- Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
- Personality disorders & related conditions
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- ADHD
- Aging
- Alcohol use
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Autism spectrum & neurodivergence
- Autism with developmental delay
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body image
- Bullying or harassment
- Career & work issues
- Caregiving
- Conditions caused by stress
- Dementia & memory concerns
- 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
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gender identity & mental health
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Hair pulling & skin picking
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability (caregiver-supported care)
- Intense mood changes
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Men's health/issues
- Mental health changes after brain & head injuries
- Mental health during perimenopause
- Mental health related to pregnancy & reproductive health
- Mental health support for neurological conditions
- Mid-life transitions
- Military, veteran, and first responder mental health
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Other addictive behaviors
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Phobias
- PMS & PMDD
- 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 mental health conditions
- Unhealthy eating habits
Therapy Types
- ACT Therapy
- Attachment Regulation & Competency Therapy (ARC)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
- DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
- EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)
- EMDR Therapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Humanistic Therapy
- IFS Therapy (Internal Family Systems)
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Narrative Therapy
- Parenting Support
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)
- Social Skills Training
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Lucet (BCBS of Kansas City)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
Languages
- English
Education
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
Locations
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Questions About
Joy Jones
Please call us at 816-827-5110 to schedule an appointment with Joy Jones.
Joy Jones generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist. Please call 816-827-5110 to find out Joy Jones's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by Joy Jones:
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Lucet (BCBS of Kansas City)
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Sana Benefits
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- Tricare West (TriWest)
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 816-827-5110 to see how we can help.
Joy Jones is a Therapist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
Joy Jones works at:
Yes, Joy Jones does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, Joy Jones is currently offering in-office visits at the following location: