About Joanna
Joanna Ulloa is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people navigate stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and provides straightforward, practical support for everyday struggles. Joanna wants people to feel heard and understood from the first session.
She focuses on common concerns such as relationship difficulties, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and depression. Joanna also addresses issues like panic attacks, social anxiety, codependency, and problems with guilt or shame.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how these struggles affect daily life and relationships. In sessions she builds an open, nonjudgmental space for talking through thoughts and feelings. Conversations are direct and grounded, with an emphasis on clear steps clients can try between meetings.
Joanna helps people identify patterns, practice new ways of coping, and set small goals that feel achievable. Her approach is practical and collaborative. Joanna draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor support to each person’s needs.
She encourages people to move at their own pace while offering tools for managing anxiety, improving communication, and rebuilding confidence. Joanna works from New York as a New York LMHC - licensed mental health counselor - and has four years of professional experience.
She invites people to take the first step and reach out when they are ready to explore change and find healthier ways to cope.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Joanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, usable skills. One common approach helps people learn breathing and grounding strategies to reduce panic symptoms and manage intense anxiety in the moment. These are simple exercises that can be practiced between sessions to build confidence and steady reactions.Another approach focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments. That work helps clients change avoidant behavior, improve communication, and lower social anxiety over time. Both approaches are adaptable to a person’s goals and day-to-day demands.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Joanna works collaboratively to decide what fits best. She asks about goals, routines, and what feels doable, then adjusts techniques so they match each person's pace and strengths.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what works for them. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and text work well for quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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