About Joana
Joana Sossaman is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for someone feeling overwhelmed. Joana frames sessions around each person's needs and moves at a pace that feels manageable.
Her work covers addictions, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also addresses depression, anger, low self-esteem, panic attacks, and the fallout from past hurt. Joana pays attention to overlapping issues like codependency, control problems, and isolation so the whole situation can be addressed rather than isolated symptoms.
Background and approach
Joana uses approaches that help people process intense memories and make meaning from difficult life events. She applies trauma-focused methods and eye movement desensitization techniques when appropriate. Existential therapy is also part of her practice, helping people consider values, choices, and purpose as they recover and rebuild.
With seven years of experience, Joana practices in New Mexico and holds LPC and LPCC credentials. She aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people can talk honestly about hard things. Joana works with each person to build a clear plan that fits their goals.
She emphasizes practical steps alongside reflection. That can mean learning grounding tools, pacing exposure to painful memories, or trying new ways to speak about relationships. Her approach is collaborative and focused on small, doable change.
Approaches for processing trauma and anxiety online
Joana uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people make sense of traumatic events and reduce their impact on daily life. This approach focuses on processing difficult memories and building coping strategies to move forward.She incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, which works by guiding attention while revisiting upsetting memories to reduce their intensity. EMDR can be useful for post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and intense flashbacks.
Existential Therapy is also part of her practice and offers space to examine values, meaning, and choices when life feels uncertain. That approach can help people struggling with identity, purpose, or major life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joana will discuss options and adapt methods to match a person's goals, comfort level, and the issues they bring. She works with clients to set clear objectives and to try techniques that fit their needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can serve for shorter check-ins, between-session support, or when typing feels simplest. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a real-life schedule while focusing on practical healing and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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