About Joanna
Joanna Fleming is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia who helps people facing family stress, trauma, parenting strain, and low self-esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for a worried parent taking a first step. Joanna focuses on practical changes and clearer communication in everyday life.
She adapts conversations and goals to each person. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent first, such as managing panic, coping with life changes, or handling conflict with relatives.
How Joanna works
Joanna uses tools that help people notice patterns, shift unhelpful thoughts, and practice new ways of relating. Joanna combines gentle listening with structured techniques. She draws from acceptance-based work and cognitive strategies to help people tolerate hard feelings while making actionable changes.
Emotion-focused ideas guide work on relationships and attachment concerns. Her background includes five years of clinical experience helping people recover from abuse, cope with dissociation, and manage caregiver stress. She also supports parents working through postpartum depression and people wrestling with guilt, shame, and isolation.
In sessions clients can expect clear goals and step-by-step exercises. Joanna pays attention to communication habits and control issues that keep problems stuck. She helps people test small changes between meetings and build confidence over time.
Joanna lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Joanna works with
The areas below are the ones Joanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. The goal is to clarify personal values and take committed action toward what matters, which can help with life changes and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce panic, low mood, and control issues. It uses brief exercises and practice between sessions to build new habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on feelings in relationships and attachment patterns; it helps people improve communication and repair disconnection.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Joanna works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. Sessions may combine techniques so the plan matches what people need in the moment and across weeks of work.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit help into a busy life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills coaching, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick reflections, between-session support, and tracking progress over time. These formats aim to offer flexibility while working toward clear goals.
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A practical next step
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