About Joanna
Joanna Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona. She brings four years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, or big life changes. Her work often centers on identity, sexuality, and intimacy concerns, and she creates an affirming space for LGBTQ people.
Joanna uses straightforward, practical methods to help clients manage strong emotions and improve communication. Sessions focus on skills people can practice between meetings.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing addiction, career stress, grief, and compassion fatigue. Her approach blends acceptance and commitment work with attachment-focused strategies and mindfulness. Joanna helps clients notice what matters to them, build clearer connections, and use present-moment awareness to reduce distress.
When trauma is part of the story, she draws on tools designed to support processing difficult memories. Joanna aims for a collaborative and respectful style. She listens for each person’s goals and adapts methods to fit their life.
Meetings are practical and paced to what the client can handle. Clients often come with layered issues such as codependency, family of origin struggles, or co-occurring mood and substance concerns. Joanna helps people break those cycles, set boundaries, and find better ways to relate to themselves and others.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them even when anxiety or fear is present. It focuses on actions that matter rather than trying to remove every uncomfortable feeling. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and communication. It can help people notice patterns that lead to conflict and practice new ways of connecting. Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasizes understanding emotions in the moment and using that awareness to improve closeness and repair ruptures in relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna listens to what the client wants to change and offers options based on their goals and comfort level. Together they try methods, see what helps, and adjust the plan over time so the work fits the person’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone calls can be easier when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs regular touchpoints between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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