About Joni
Joni Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 18 years of clinical experience. She chose counseling after personal loss and recovery shaped her path, and she combines lived experience with formal training to help people move forward. Her background includes work in trauma, addiction, mood disorders, and crisis settings.
She focuses on practical, straightforward work. Sessions are collaborative and start with clear informed consent so clients know what to expect.
Background and approach
Joni draws on several proven methods to match the work to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Her earlier onsite roles included supporting people in residential addiction programs, crisis stabilization, and domestic violence services. That hands-on work informs how she approaches safety, relapse prevention, and coping after traumatic events.
Joni is also a member of the LGBTQIA community and brings that perspective into therapy when relevant. She identifies as neurodivergent and speaks from both personal and professional experience about recovery and identity. Her areas of focus include anxiety, stress, addictions, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stresses, ADHD, and phobias.
Clients can expect a blend of attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and emotionally-focused ideas used in ways that fit their goals. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Joni uses client-centered work to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client's concerns lead the conversation. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and supporting each person's own goals, which helps when people are coping with grief, identity questions, or relationship struggles.She also draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT techniques can be useful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and many everyday stressors because they offer concrete steps to practice between sessions.
Deciding which approach fits best is a team effort. Joni talks with each person about goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try and checks in about what is helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow visual cues and longer conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give flexibility to fit work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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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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