About Joanna
Joanna Loftus is a Licensed Professional Counselor with eleven years of clinical experience based in Colorado. She blends talk therapy with creative expression to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship challenges. Joanna speaks English and Polish and brings a calm, straightforward presence to sessions.
She uses art and the creative process to help people name and move through feelings that are hard to put into words. That practical use of art sits alongside evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address trauma, depression, bipolar mood patterns, panic attacks, and addiction-related concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, workable steps and on building skills that fit daily life. Joanna pays close attention to patterns that keep people stuck, such as impulsive behavior or communication problems. She helps clients notice those patterns, try different responses, and strengthen what works.
Practical tools and simple experiments are paired with opportunities to reflect and make meaning of difficult experiences. Her work also addresses specific situations like coping after disasters, first responder stress, divorce and separation, and feelings tied to guilt, shame, or abandonment. People who want a creative, steady, and skills-oriented approach often find this helpful.
Joanna invites people to try small changes, learn new coping strategies, and reconnect with personal strengths. She encourages a collaborative pace so goals evolve naturally during therapy.
Approaches that use art and evidence-based tools
Joanna pairs creative methods with evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people who struggle with anxiety, trauma, and mood disorders. One approach uses guided artmaking to access emotions that are hard to name; the art process helps reveal patterns and offers a nonverbal way to work through difficult memories and feelings. This is useful when words alone feel limiting.Another approach focuses on proven clinical techniques delivered in a straightforward way to build coping skills and manage symptoms such as panic, depression, and impulsivity. These techniques teach step-by-step strategies for calming the body, changing unhelpful thinking, and practicing new behaviors in daily life.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Joanna will work with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan over time. Clients help shape what the work looks like based on their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Polish
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