About Jo
Jo Ann Farmer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 19 years in the behavioral health field. She moved into counseling after receiving help during a difficult personal time and now focuses on offering steady support to people facing hard moments. Her background includes long-term work with stress, anxiety, anger, addictions, grief, and coping with life changes.
She keeps a personable and interactive style in sessions. Jo Ann listens closely and helps people notice small, manageable steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She often draws on Christian values when clients want to include faith in their work, and she matches methods to each person’s needs and pace. Her experience includes supporting survivors of child abuse, domestic violence, and those affected by divorce and family separation. She also has worked with people dealing with trauma, attachment and abandonment issues, and hospice or end-of-life concerns.
Jo Ann is familiar with a wide range of life stressors and identity challenges, such as gender dysphoria and multicultural concerns. In practice she uses therapies that focus on the person in front of her and practical skill-building. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused Therapy are among the approaches she applies to help with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and coping skills.
Jo Ann adapts her methods based on what each person can engage with. Jo Ann offers sessions in English from Georgia and accepts international clients. She aims to be a steady, caring presence for people who want clear, compassionate help moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches and what online sessions can offer
Jo Ann uses Client-Centered Therapy to put the person's experience at the center of sessions. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions, which can help with low self-esteem, grief, and relationship concerns.She also draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. CBT is practical and skill-based, useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it teaches tools people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jo Ann will discuss goals and preferences and then tailor methods to fit the person's needs and capacity to engage. That collaborative process helps decide whether to emphasize client-centered listening, CBT skills, or other techniques.
Online sessions give flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or video isn’t practical. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a way to work without being on camera. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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