About Joanne
Joanne Sizemore is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of experience in California. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, and family conflict. Joanne aims to make the first step toward change feel achievable and supported.
She creates a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about their thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and finding practical ways to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Conversations can range from short-term coping strategies to learning new ways to handle repeated patterns. Joanne often works with parents who feel worn down by daily pressures and by people managing the emotional impact of past trauma. She also offers guidance around child custody and visitation concerns, helping people think through options and next steps.
Her approach balances listening with clear, doable suggestions. Over her career she has supported a wide range of people through stressful life changes and longer-term struggles. She meets clients where they are and moves at a pace that feels right for each person.
Joanne emphasizes small, steady steps that build toward better daily functioning and greater emotional relief. People come for help with specific problems like panic and worry, and for broader goals such as improving family interactions or recovering from past harm. Joanne works alongside clients to identify priorities and create a plan that fits their life.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Joanne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress and to work through trauma. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against everyday experiences so worry has less control over daily life. This kind of work helps with panic, constant worry, and low mood by building new ways of thinking and reacting.Another useful technique centers on learning practical coping skills. That includes breath and grounding exercises, short behavioral experiments, and step-by-step changes in routine. These tools are aimed at reducing immediate distress and creating steadier daily habits over time.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanne will talk with each person about their goals, daily life, and what feels most comfortable, and then together they will try methods that match those needs. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and as priorities shift.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or chat can fit into busy schedules or provide brief support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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