About JoAnn
JoAnn Park is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns, and often helps people facing trauma, grief, or life changes. JoAnn adapts her work to each person instead of using one fixed method.
She frames sessions around what matters most to the client. JoAnn listens for patterns in feelings and behavior, and then suggests practical steps to try between visits.
Background and approach
She has long experience supporting people with substance use issues and is familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous approaches. JoAnn uses different clinical styles depending on the situation. That can mean helping someone change unhelpful thoughts and habits with cognitive behavioral techniques.
It can also mean exploring deeper emotional patterns with psychodynamic ideas or strengthening emotional connection through emotionally-focused methods. Mindfulness skills and client-centered listening are regular parts of her sessions. These tools help with panic, phobias, sleep problems, eating concerns, and stress management.
JoAnn also supports people dealing with prejudice, identity questions, and LGBT-related stress. Her manner is straightforward and respectful. She names her own Christian faith while honoring each person’s beliefs and choices.
JoAnn works with clear goals and practical steps so people can notice progress between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
JoAnn commonly blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people manage anxiety and stress. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience, which helps build trust and clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical tools to reduce panic, phobias, and worry. She may also draw on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship or intimacy issues are central. That approach helps people identify and name emotions and then practice new ways of responding. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; JoAnn talks with each person about goals and preferences and adjusts methods as needed. Online sessions make those methods easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work for emotion-focused conversations, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and brief live chat or text messaging can help with check-ins and quick coping strategies. These formats give flexibility for skill practice, between-session tasks, and ongoing support while keeping the same clinical approaches that guide in-person work.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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