About Joanna
Joanna Perez is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults and young adults manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. Joanna aims to help people feel more grounded and regain a sense of control during difficult transitions.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Sessions are practical and paced to the client, with room to slow down and process difficult experiences.
How Joanna works
Joanna emphasizes building tools that can be used between sessions to manage panic, reduce overwhelm, and rebuild self-trust. Joanna has worked in outpatient, residential, community-based, and correctional settings. That range of experience informs how she responds to complex situations and co-occurring issues.
She brings attention to how identity and background shape coping and recovery. Common concerns she addresses include coping with life changes, attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, codependency, substance use challenges, dissociation, and hoarding. She works with people facing aging and geriatric issues, blended family dynamics, and feelings of emptiness, guilt, or shame.
Therapy with Joanna is focused on practical change and deeper self-understanding. She encourages clients to set goals and learn skills they can practice in daily life. Work proceeds at a steady, manageable pace so progress feels sustainable.
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.
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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How evidence-based approaches work online
Joanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and trauma-responsive care. Cognitive-focused work involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new ways of thinking and responding to stress. This approach helps with anxiety, low mood, and feeling stuck.Another core element is skills-based work drawn from dialectical-informed practices that teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are useful for managing panic, intense emotions, and relationship stresses. Trauma-responsive care provides ways to process and stabilize after harmful experiences while paying attention to safety and pacing.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Joanna collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort. Together they set practical goals and adjust techniques over time based on what works.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can work better when lower bandwidth or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity and practice skills between sessions.
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