Dr. Joan Barclay

Joanie Barclay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who brings a diversity of professional acumen from over 25 years working with adults, military families, veterans to build light, peace, and hope within their lives. Her person-centered and strengths-based approaches to healing and wellness are enhanced with her ministerial background. Joanie earned two Master’s degrees in Clinical Social Work and Pastoral Ministry from Boston College, along with a post-graduate certification in Spiritual Direction. She completed one chaplaincy unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Saints Memorial Hospital, primarily working with oncology patients.As a trained P.R.E.P. (*Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) for Strong Bonds, a facilitator for marriage enrichment, she offers critical gold standard evidence-based tools to assist military couples through the unique reunion and reintegration challenges of post-deployments. As a psychotherapist, Joanie assists clients to develop …tools within the framework of cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, solutions-focused therapy, interpersonal therapy, and dialectical behavioral (DBT) based therapy. Her work with community agencies and programs includes a repertoire of populations and issues unique tograndparents raising grandchildren, women’s wellness, bereavement and grief, end of life, and meaning-making through trauma and life-altering events.As a practitioner and advocate for mindfulness, she purposefully generates a milieu to make a client feel validated, to recover one’s voice, and to recognize and accept one’s gifts, imperfections, desires, and aspirations. Joanie acknowledges those who invite her into their lives as courageous individuals and empowers them to navigate a life-giving path that embraces a fullness of often unexplored possibilities. She welcomes new clients who choose to embark on a journey of collaborative problem-solving and enhanced wellness for one’s life.

Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Westborough

5 E Main St Suite 3

Westborough

MA

01581

USA

+18557262714

• Mental Health Counseling
• Clinical Social Work

• Medication management
• Individual Therapy
• Counseling
• Child Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Neuroanalysis

• Accepts Medicare
• Magellan
• Harvard Pilgrim
• First Health Network
• Cigna
• BCBS
• Compsych
• Aetna
• Tricare East
• United Healthcare
• Blue Cross Blue Shield

• Autism
• Psychiatric disorders in pregnancy and postpartum
• Bereavement and grief
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Eating Disorders
• ADD/ADHD
• Relationship challenges
• Spiritual Issues
• Relationship Issues
• Sleep Disorders
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Depressive Disorders
• Self Esteem
• Depression
• Parent-Child Problems
• Mental Illness
• Chronic Mental Health Issues
• Postpartum Depression
• Grief
• Spirituality
• Anxiety
• Chronic Pain
• Premature Ejaculation
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Anxiety Phobic Disorders
• Chronic Stress
• Pregnancy-related Mood Disorders
• Infertility
• Life Transitions
• LGBT Issues
• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Anxiety Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders