About Josanna
Josanna Almanzar is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supportive. Josanna writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard during sessions.
She uses straightforward, practical tools drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and a client-centered stance. That means sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on small skills that can reduce worry and improve day-to-day coping.
Background and approach
Conversations move at the client’s pace and priorities guide the work. Josanna has three years of professional counseling experience and worked for more than five years in the mental health field before becoming licensed. That background informs how she approaches issues like trauma, addiction, depression, and life transitions.
She also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, relationships, sexuality, and women’s health in separate sessions. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She encourages people to name what’s hard and to try manageable changes between meetings.
Therapy can include practice with new ways of thinking, behavior experiments, or focused problem solving depending on the person’s goals. Sessions may feel like a mix of listening, teaching, and planning. Josanna supports clients as they test new skills and notice what helps.
The aim is steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Josanna combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to shape online work. Client-centered Therapy focuses on understanding what matters to the person and on building a trusting, nonjudgmental connection. It helps when someone needs space to sort feelings and be heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits. CBT is useful for managing worry, low mood, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try different methods together to see what fits. That means sessions can shift over time as needs and preferences become clearer, with the client steering pace and focus.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for quick reflections, ongoing support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches like CBT exercises between sessions.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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