About Joanna
Joanna "Jo" Hadley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those facing grief, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and life changes. Jo works with people who identify as LGBT and attends to women's issues, sexuality, and questions of life purpose.
Jo has eight years in clinical practice as an LCSW in Montana and a long history in social work overall.
Background and approach
She spent recent years as a dialysis social worker, which shaped her work with chronic illness, pain, and end-of-life concerns. She is also a certified grief educator and brings that background into conversations about loss. Her approach is straightforward and person-focused.
Jo adapts sessions to each person's needs, mixing client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions often include clear steps you can try between meetings. Jo frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She listens first, helps set goals, and then chooses techniques that match what someone wants to achieve. This can mean practicing new coping skills, addressing unhelpful thoughts, or building stronger emotional regulation habits. People who come to Jo typically want calm, usable strategies rather than long lectures.
She aims to support motivation, strengthen self-compassion, and help people find more satisfying ways to meet their needs. Her style is respectful, direct, and focused on real-life changes.
How Jo Uses Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy starts with listening and following the person's priorities. It focuses on understanding where someone is right now and shaping sessions around their goals, which helps when worries or life changes feel overwhelming.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Online sessions may include short exercises to notice unhelpful thinking and practical steps to change reactions to stress and anxiety.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for coping with intense emotions and improving relationships. In remote sessions Jo can teach breathing, grounding, and communication skills that people can practice between meetings.
Choosing the best approach is part of working together. Jo will listen to your needs, try methods that match your goals, and adjust over time if something isn’t helping. That collaborative process helps find what actually works for day-to-day life.
Online formats make therapy easier to fit into a busy routine. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well with low bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and preferences.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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