About Juanita
Juanita Stokes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, grief, and depression. She writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Juanita aims to create a calm space where clients can sort through what matters and make steady progress.
She uses a person-centered approach that centers the client's experience and priorities. That means she listens first and helps people build self-awareness about how they react to challenges.
Background and approach
Greater self-understanding is presented as a tool for changing unhelpful patterns and making decisions that fit each person’s life. Juanita also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Narrative therapy ideas are used to reframe personal stories when people feel stuck by past events.
Motivational interviewing can help when someone needs a nudge to make a change they truly want. Her background includes two master’s degrees and more than 11 years of counseling experience. Juanita spent many years in senior US government roles and says that experience shaped her familiarity with workplace stress and career pressure.
She aims to support people taking the first steps toward a more satisfying life. Sessions are described as collaborative and paced to the client. Juanita encourages short-term goals and realistic steps so progress feels manageable and relevant to daily life.
How Juanita brings therapeutic approaches online
Juanita uses client-centered methods to focus sessions on what matters most to the individual. That approach emphasizes listening, building self-awareness, and helping clients name their goals so each session stays relevant.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active. CBT involves trying small, practical changes between sessions to see what helps in daily life. Narrative therapy is another tool she draws on; it helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves so they can make different choices going forward.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Juanita works with each person to decide what feels most useful, adjusting methods based on goals and preferences. She encourages setting short-term steps to test new strategies and then reassessing together.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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