About Joni
Joni Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 18 years of clinical experience. She brings personal experience with recovery and grief to her work and uses that background to connect with people facing hard transitions. Joni offers straightforward, empathetic care for worry, sleeplessness, and the fallout from trauma.
Her practice focuses on anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, depression, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also helps with parenting strain, career stress, grief after loss, and challenges tied to identity and attachment.
Background and approach
Joni is familiar with complex medical and caregiving situations, chronic pain, and overlapping conditions that make everyday life harder. In sessions she blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships, and client-centered methods create space for people to find their own answers. The style is practical and conversational rather than abstract. Joni draws on nearly two decades of work in addiction programs, crisis stabilization, and residential care settings.
She also speaks from lived experience as someone in long-term recovery and as a member of the LGBTQIA community. Those perspectives inform how she listens and plans treatment. Sessions are offered in English and Joni accepts international clients.
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy process.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and learn new interaction habits to feel steadier. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joni will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process often blends approaches so clients learn tools while also having space to process feelings and life stories.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy or geographically distant people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit short check-ins into a workday. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around life responsibilities.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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