Joan E. Childs, LCSW is a nationally recognized therapist. She is the author of The Myth of the Maiden: On Being a Woman, Why Did She Jump? and her latest, I Hate the Man I Love: A Conscious Relationship is Your Key to Success. Childs lectures and delivers inspirational keynote addresses for corporations, organizations, associations and universities.

Services offered: Hypnosis; Master Level Neuro-linguistic Programming; Master Level EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming); Gestalt Therapy; Inner Child Work; Certified Grief Counseling; Encounter-centered Couples Therapy; PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills).

Areas of specialty: expert in second stage recovery; inner child work; individual, couples therapy; mind-body-spiritual connection; hypnosis; meditation; stress management; mindfulness. Childs offers multi-day intensives for healing family-of-origin wounds.

Philosophical Approach: To eliminate shame, guilt and the stigma from mental illness, Childs provides therapy, resources, information, hope and courage to families struggling with its effects. She helps couples heal from the polluted relational space they created over time, and gives them new ways to communicate and reconnect, to restore a sacred space in their relationship.

Childs states, “I have had my own tragedies to overcome and lost a daughter, who leaped to her death after struggling with bipolar disorder. I believe that a therapist can only take a client as far as they themselves have gone. By morphing my pain into passion and purpose and helping others, I continue to help myself.”