About Joanne
Joanne Curgian is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years in the counseling field. She focuses on anxiety, stress, addiction, depression and other mood concerns and helps people who are facing big life changes. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at reducing overwhelm and building coping skills.
She has worked in residential treatment, inpatient and crisis settings, and substance abuse programs. Joanne has experience with probation-related cases and in independent practice, which gives her a broad view of challenges people bring into therapy.
Background and approach
She draws on that background to tailor support to each person. Joanne blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques. That means she listens first, then helps people try concrete steps to change thinking and behavior.
Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing new skills, and setting small achievable goals. People come to her for a wide range of issues, including relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, ADHD-related struggles, postpartum mood changes, and compassion fatigue. She also offers support around adoption and foster care topics, blended family dynamics, and substance misuse.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Joanne aims to make therapy accessible and useful. She encourages realistic, steady progress and works with each person to find what fits their life and goals.
How client-centered and CBT work in online sessions
Joanne uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a listening space where people can feel heard and understood. This approach focuses on the person's goals and experience, encouraging them to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and asks helpful questions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT offers concrete tools to test unhelpful thoughts, change patterns, and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and substance-related issues.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Joanne will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will adjust strategies over time if something is not working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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