JOSEPH CIRINO, LISW-S

Joseph is the visionary and founder of Dragonfly Behavioral Services, a comprehensive solution to mental health and learning needs for adults, children and families. Joseph received his Masters from Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western University in 2003, and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Intervention Specialist in the state of Ohio. He has over 17 years of experience working in both clinical and school district settings of culturally diverse districts in the Cuyahoga, Lake and Geauga county areas. He is also trained in Trauma Informed Care (TIC) from the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children (TLC). 

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Joseph’s distinctive combination in the fields of mental health and special education has provided him deeper insight into the working relationship of the emotional brain and a client’s unique learning style, bringing together a complete framework of a client’s strengths-based ‘Learning Theory’. Joseph believes that this framework to therapy can be meaningful and even life-changing to his clients. Joseph also understands that faith & prayer can be a personal strength & source of hope to his clients, and can incorporate prayer at your request.

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Joseph’s specialties include: Treating Anxiety, Depression, and major life adjustments in adults and children, and with families.  Child and Adolescents with interpersonal, social and emotional challenges, and individuals with Autism and Learning Disabilities. Joseph is empathic, caring, and energetic and uses a complementary set of therapeutic modalities. Joseph is a formally trained EMDR therapist through an EMRIDIA-approved facility and uses combinations of; Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Person-Centered, Interpersonal, Strengths-Based, Mindfulness, Social/Emotional Learning (SEL), Trauma-Informed Care, and art expression. Joseph also helps his clients identify and expand on a set of abilities to help support or compensate for the identified challenge they find within a disability. Joseph is also part of a research team of like-minded therapists who wish to support the therapeutic needs of detransitioning people who believe they have made a mistake in transitioning and cite the pressures of the therapeutic and medical community who address gender dysphoria with an affirmation-only treatment protocol. As a result, Joseph has developed complementary treatment protocols for this growing population of detransitioning individuals with significant unmet mental health needs who may feel marginalized or a lack of trust in the medical care they received and/or the medical trauma they endured. 

Joseph is available by appointment for individual and group therapy and guiding families through the counseling process, by helping them identify problems, set goals and find solutions to various challenges and crises. He is also available for school district consultation in the areas of mental health, school climate and professional development for teachers and staff.