About Joanette
Joanette Pulskamp-Jackson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of practice between Colorado and Ohio. She brings long experience to sessions and focuses on creating an affirming, respectful atmosphere where people can talk about hard things. Joanette uses a straightforward, compassionate style and helps clients set small, practical goals they can try between meetings.
Her work covers a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, and bipolar challenges.
How Joanette works
She also addresses intimacy and relationship concerns, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, and compassion fatigue. Additional areas of attention include attachment issues, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and substance-related struggles. Joanette integrates several evidence-informed approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used to shape unhelpful thinking and strengthen coping skills. Emotionally-Focused and client-centered methods guide deeper emotional work.
Her sessions tend to be collaborative and practical. Joanette encourages small experiments and teaches concrete techniques, then reviews what worked. She aims to help people build steadier routines, better boundaries, and clearer communication.
People can expect direct, nonjudgmental feedback and a focus on what is useful in day-to-day life. Joanette supports clients from the first meeting through progress toward their personal goals.
Joanette lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Joanette works with
The areas below are the ones Joanette selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by shifting attention toward meaningful behaviors rather than only trying to control thoughts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. This approach suits worries about anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and some aspects of addiction recovery.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. From there she will suggest a mix of methods and adjust as progress happens in sessions.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short updates, homework check-ins, or people who prefer writing. These options help people keep continuity of care and practice skills between sessions.
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