About
Psychotherapist
Phone Number: 224-655-2655 x 7
Email: jcarpenter@affective-counseling.com
About Josie
Therapy can be a place to slow down, make sense of what feels overwhelming, and reconnect with yourself in a more grounded way. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, relationship stress, attention and focus challenges, life transitions, body image concerns, or struggles with self-esteem, you don’t have to work through it alone.
Josie is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Art Therapist with over five years of clinical experience in community mental health and outpatient settings, supporting individuals across a wide range of concerns, including trauma, anxiety, and depression. She has extensive experience using art therapy as a primary modality to help clients process emotions, build coping skills, and access parts of their inner experience that can be difficult to put into words.
In addition to individual therapy, Josie has experience facilitating therapeutic groups and values the role of social connection, reflection, and shared experience in healing and growth. She also currently supports individuals struggling with eating disorders and body image concerns and is in the process of expanding her clinical focus to include a broader range of emotional and relational needs.
Her work includes supporting couples and individuals navigating relationship challenges, communication difficulties, and attachment-based patterns that impact connection, trust, and intimacy. She also works with clients experiencing ADHD-related concerns, including emotional regulation, executive functioning challenges, and the ways these difficulties can affect relationships, work, and daily life.
Josie’s approach is deeply rooted in art therapy, alongside Adlerian therapy, person-centered therapy, and trauma-informed care. Art therapy is central to her clinical work and serves as a powerful pathway for insight, emotional expression, and meaningful change. She strives to create a collaborative and grounded space where clients feel understood, supported, and not judged or “fixed,” but instead invited to explore change at their own pace.
