Holistic Individual Counseling, Personal Consulting & Medication Management
Reclaim your hope.
Reinvent your story.
Reignite your passion for life.
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What if you could rewrite your negative thoughts and emotions and feel whole again?
What if your healing could be permanent, even though you’ve been told otherwise?
What if there was a way to reclaim hope and restore balance to your life?
What if you could start living again?
You’re likely here because you’re ready to rewrite your story, and you’re searching for the right therapist to help.
My integrative, holistic counseling approach combines the best, evidence-based practices to support your journey.
I’m Joan Kaylor, a holistic professional counselor and consultant since 1994.
And, I’ve been exactly where you are now.
Until age 39, I struggled to find my purpose and to know my self-worth. I suffered from a condition called trichotillomania, or hair pulling. But when I volunteered with Trichotillomania Learning Center Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors and International OCD Foundation, I discovered the innovative tools to stop pulling my hair and to change my life.
I imagine you’re feeling lost, alone, and maybe helpless. I remember that place. And, I know there is a pathway to healing the pain.
It’s time to end the cycle of stress, anxiety, hopelessness, grief, or trauma –
even if you’ve told yourself it’s impossible.
Joan Kaylor, MSEd, LPC, LMHC Counseling provides holistic mental health counseling for adults in Pennsylvania and Florida specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder).
Services focus on mind-body approaches that support nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and long-term symptom relief.
Treatment is individualized and trauma-informed, offering compassionate care for clients experiencing intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, chronic anxiety, mood challenges, and body-focused repetitive behaviors.
- Severe Trauma
- PTSD
- OCD
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Panic disorder
- Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
- Dermatillomania (skin picking)
- Fear of Public Speaking
- Test-Taking Anxiety
- Business Anxiety
- Sports Performance Anxiety
I’m a licensed counselor, certified in the three most effective evidence-based approaches to psychotherapy: cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), exposure-response prevention (ERP), and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/Tapping). And, I’m the only EFT therapist in Pennsylvania certified by the two most highly respected EFT organizations in the world: Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and EFT International.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an exciting, evidence-based, self-help technique in the emerging field of energy psychology. It can help restore the flow and balance of the body’s electromagnetic, subtle energy for physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being.
We’ll use a holistic, integrated approach that leverages counseling to uncover the origin of your distress. Then, we’ll apply the powerful tools of EFT to alleviate the suffering caused by negative thoughts, emotions, and self-sabotaging beliefs.
Clients searching for therapy for anxiety, OCD, trichotillomania, and depression in Pennsylvania or Florida can receive professional, integrative counseling services through Joan Kaylor, MSEd, LPC, LMHC Counseling.
Are you ready to move beyond your fear and into a life where anything is possible?
Let’s get started today.
Reclaim your hope. Reinvent your story. Reignite your passion for life.
BIG NEWS!
Accepting in person and telehealth clients in Florida. Always telehealth in Pennsylvania.
I am thrilled to announce that I now offer in person and telehealth services to Florida residents. I have been a professional counselor in Pennsylvania since 1994. Please browse my site to see all the services I provide and conditions I treat such as trauma, panic attacks, trichotillomania, dermatillomania, anxiety, depression and more.
I currently take the insurances below.
I offer a free 15 minute consultation by phone or zoom. Please contact me by text 724-413-0964 or email Joan@joankaylor.com to schedule a consultation.
Now Accepting Medicare
I do NOT accept Medical Assistance
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I do NOT accept Medical Assistance
Individual Counseling
Get to the source of your anxiety, stress, depression, or other challenges with individual counseling.
Start living the life you were meant to live.
Family & Child Counseling
With several people in the house, there are bound to be differences. But when those differences create tension, it needs to be fixed.
Hair Pulling, Skin Picking & OCD
I stopped pulling out my hair in 1989. I have been helping children, teens and adults stop pulling hair and picking skin since 1994 when I became a licensed professional counselor.
“Working with Joan was exactly what I needed to overcome 25 years of pulling my hair. I had made some amazing progress with another EFT practitioner & knew the power of this incredible tool but still felt myself pulling when things got really stressful. When I heard of Joan & that she specializes in Trich, I knew she was the right practitioner to help me cross the line and be done with this coping mechanism for good. The fact that she has first had experience with pulling took so much shame out of it for me. She really gets it. Aside from our tapping sessions she also offered valuable exercises & strategies as well as surfacing new information about what was underneath this habit. I am proud to say I have not pulled a hair since our 3rd session. She & I continued to check in monthly to see how it was going & the accountability & support she provided was so valuable! I am incredibly grateful for her & truly believe I wouldn’t be where I am today without her help. Thank you!”
Emotional Freedom Techniques
EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is a practical self-help method that involves using the fingers to gently tap on the body’s acupuncture points along the meridian lines of Chinese medicine. These are same points used in acupuncture but without needles. It is often referred to as ‘EFT Tapping’ or simply as ‘Tapping’. The therapeutic effects of this technique are recognized around the world. One can use EFT tapping for anxiety, weight loss issues, addiction cravings, stress, pain control, trauma, PTSD and many other issues. It is evidenced supported by over 50 controlled double blind studies.
EFT Tapping helps us tune in to the negative patterns that we form around our uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or troubling memories. We ‘tap’ on the correct pressure points while bringing the thoughts or emotions into consciousness. The aim is to find relief, relaxation, and promote healing around the emotional or physical issues that hold us back.
EFT Applications
There are two primary applications or faces of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or what is now more commonly known as Tapping:
1. EFT or Tapping for Self-Care
This method of gentle tapping on certain areas of the face and body while tuning into an issue, helps you relieve stress and feel better in the moment.
2. One on one
This client-centered care that we do together. During a series of 1-to-1 EFT sessions, I will help you “tap into” your unique subjective experience of a presenting challenge (or troubling issue/s) for the purpose of gaining clarity and resolution. This supports the client in making changes (emotional and/or physical), shifting limited thought processes, resolving past traumas, opening to beneficial ways to move forward and more.
Areas of Expertise
Hair Pulling ♦ Skin Picking ♦ OCD ♦ Depression ♦ Trauma ♦ Anxiety ♦ Childhood Anxiety ♦ Grief & Loss ♦ PTSD ♦ Women’s Issues
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