About Jo
Jo Ellen Clark is a licensed clinical social worker in California with ten years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or big life changes. She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared and explored.
She draws on hands-on experience from hospital and hospice settings. For over six years she worked in an acute rehab unit at a trauma center.
How Jo works
There she supported people facing sudden changes in health, housing, income, and relationships, and helped them cope with anxiety and depression after injury. Her current work as a hospice social worker deepened her focus on grief, loss, and end-of-life concerns. In that role she listened, advocated, and helped people set realistic goals for emotional adjustment and acceptance.
Those skills shape how she supports people now. Jo Ellen uses practical, person-focused methods. She leans on client-centered work to follow each person's priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to notice patterns of thinking and solution-focused steps to identify small, doable changes. Her style is compassionate and straightforward. She meets people where they are, helps name priorities, and works collaboratively on steps toward the life they want.
Phone, video, chat, and messaging options are offered to fit different schedules.
Jo lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Jo works with
The areas below are the ones Jo selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's concerns and priorities, creating space to talk through feelings and choices in a supportive way. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and wants to set their own goals.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by offering concrete tools for daily use.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small, achievable steps and what already works, making it useful when someone wants quick strategies to move forward from a problem.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide what methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session plans and short-term targets.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls let people meet face to face without travel, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging make it easy to check in between appointments. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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