About Joanna
Joanna Hurt Sargeant is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and trauma. She draws on 25 years of clinical experience to help clients feel heard and to work toward clearer goals. Joanna aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard feelings and start making changes.
Her approach is practical and collaborative. She listens first to understand each person’s priorities.
Background and approach
Then she offers tools that match those goals, such as strategies for managing worry, skills to improve communication, and steps to rebuild self-esteem. Joanna uses a mix of methods to suit different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy supports emotion regulation and coping during intense moments. Mindfulness techniques are used to reduce stress and bring attention to the present. She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused work to keep sessions grounded in what matters most now.
That means sessions often include goal-setting, practical homework, and short-term strategies alongside deeper trauma processing when needed. Joanna has worked across community and clinical settings in Connecticut for many years. She brings experience with multicultural concerns, first responder and veteran issues, postpartum depression, and challenges like guilt, shame, and infidelity.
Her style is steady, compassionate, and goal-oriented.
Approaches that translate to online care
Joanna commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change the thoughts that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT often includes simple exercises and short homework tasks that fit well into online appointments.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy when strong emotions make daily life hard. DBT provides concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanna collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. The plan can shift as progress is made or new challenges emerge.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible through several formats. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options aim to make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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