About Joanna
Joanna Perez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults and young adults manage anxiety, stress, trauma, and the hard-to-break patterns that reduce daily functioning. Joanna aims to create a calm space where people can slow down and start to feel steadier and more in control.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Sessions emphasize practical tools and small steps people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Joanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address panic, depression, low self-esteem, and major life transitions. Joanna's background includes work in outpatient, residential, community-based, and correctional settings in Florida. That range informs her approach to complex concerns such as co-morbidity, substance use issues, dissociation, and attachment difficulties.
She also supports people facing family problems, blended family stress, and caregiving or aging-related worries. Therapy with Joanna typically focuses on building self-trust, improving communication, and reducing control and codependency patterns. She encourages clients to set their own pace and to try tools that fit their daily lives.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through a variety of online formats. Joanna recognizes that recovery and growth take time. She works alongside clients to strengthen coping skills, manage guilt or shame, and navigate life changes with clearer direction and steadier coping.
Approaches that help with anxiety, trauma, and behavior change
Joanna draws on evidence-based techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce worry and panic; this helps when anxiety or depression gets in the way of daily routines. Another approach emphasizes learning and practicing coping skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance to reduce impulsive reactions and manage strong feelings after trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients decide which techniques fit their goals, pace, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time based on what is or isn't helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and written reminders of progress. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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