About Joanna
Joanna Perez is a licensed mental health counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She supports adults and young adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. Her manner is warm and collaborative, focused on practical steps people can use day to day.
Joanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients manage panic, rebuild self-trust, and feel more grounded. Sessions emphasize skill-building and clear goals so progress feels measurable.
Background and approach
She encourages a steady pace and adapts work to each person’s needs. Her background includes work in outpatient, residential, community-based, and correctional settings. That range gives her experience with different life circumstances and challenges people bring to therapy.
She aims to be culturally responsive and inclusive in all interactions. Typical sessions include talking through recent problems, learning coping skills, and practicing small behavior changes between meetings. Joanna focuses on helping clients reduce overwhelm, strengthen self-esteem, and handle situations that trigger anxiety or old patterns.
People who come to Joanna often want to feel more confident and in control. She helps them build tools for managing emotions and relationships. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Joanna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and gradual change. Cognitive-behavioral approaches help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; this is useful for panic, anxiety, and low mood. Trauma-responsive work focuses on grounding skills, pacing, and rebuilding safety in everyday routines to reduce overwhelm.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna will talk with each person about their goals and reactions to different methods, then adjust plans as progress unfolds. She works with clients to choose strategies that feel doable and relevant to their daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversation, phone can be a quicker check-in with less bandwidth, and text or chat supports short updates and moment-to-moment coping between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping the focus on practical skill building and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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