About Joanna
Joanna White helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem. She also supports those facing life changes, grief, parenting strain, eating concerns, ADHD, and work or career pressure. Joanna uses practical talk and steady guidance to help people find what works for them.
Joanna earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. Before that she completed a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice and worked with prisoner reentry programs.
How Joanna works
She also spent years supporting people affected by domestic and sexual violence, which gives her a broad view of trauma and recovery. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on learning tools for stress and anxiety, building healthier habits around eating and body image, and improving communication.
She draws on several methods to match an individual's needs rather than using one fixed model. Joanna emphasizes practical skills people can use between sessions. That can mean strategies for managing panic or obsessive thinking, ways to cope with shame and guilt, or steps to handle major life shifts.
She aims to make those skills fit into busy days. She works as an Ohio Licensed Independent Social Worker - LISW and has eight years of clinical experience. Sessions are available in English and are offered through online formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them decide actions. It focuses on values-based steps so clients can move toward what matters even during stress or grief.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and emotions interact. It offers concrete exercises for anxiety, obsessive thinking, and low mood, with homework to practice skills between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend techniques that fit. That collaborative process means methods can change as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are helpful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing thoughts helps processing.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and allow consistent follow-up between meetings. The therapist and client decide together which format will best support the work.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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