About Joni
Joni Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 18 years of experience. She followed a nontraditional path into counseling after personal loss and long recovery from addiction, and she now uses that life experience alongside clinical work to support others. Joni identifies as a member of the LGBTQIA community and is neurodivergent, which informs her perspective in sessions.
She focuses on practical, everyday steps people can take to feel more able to manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns.
How Joni works
Sessions aim to be straightforward and respectful. Joni explains approaches and options so people understand what to expect and can make informed choices. Her background includes work in residential and outpatient addiction programs, crisis stabilization, and services for survivors of domestic violence.
Those roles shaped her capacity to work with trauma, grief, and complex life transitions. She also draws on many therapy methods to tailor care to each person. Joni often blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused practices to reduce symptoms and improve relationships.
She emphasizes skills people can try between sessions alongside reflective conversation during appointments. The goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people inside and outside the United States.
Joni provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to set up the first session.
Joni lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Joni works with
The areas below are the ones Joni selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connection patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and communication in relationships and can guide work on intimacy-related concerns and attachment issues.Client-Centered Therapy centers on respectful, nonjudgmental listening and helping people find their own solutions. This approach supports people who need a space to talk through identity, grief, or life transitions while being heard and accepted.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and habits related to addiction or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process may mix listening, skills practice, and emotionally focused conversations tailored over time.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and exercises, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between appointments. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and help people stay connected to care from different locations.
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