About Joanna
Joanna Perez is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people work through anxiety, trauma, and patterns that keep them stuck. She draws on seven years of clinical experience and focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier. Joanna aims to create a calm, dependable space where people can slow down and be heard.
Her style is warm and collaborative. Sessions tend to center on building skills to manage panic, reduce overwhelming worry, and rebuild self-trust.
Background and approach
Joanna also helps people facing depression, stress, and major life changes find clearer footing and regain a sense of control. Joanna has worked in outpatient, residential, community-based, and correctional settings in Florida. That range of experience informs how she tailors support to different life situations and challenges.
She uses approaches grounded in evidence and adapts them to each person’s needs. Common topics she addresses include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication struggles, codependency, substance use issues, dissociation, and grief or shame. She also supports people dealing with aging and geriatric issues, blended family stress, hoarding, and reactions to natural or human-caused disasters.
Sessions are offered in English and take place through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Joanna works with adults and young adults seeking practical tools, clearer thinking, and steady progress toward their goals.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Joanna uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical skills and trauma-responsive strategies. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that worsen anxiety or depression. These methods are useful for managing panic, reducing worry, and tackling low mood.She also incorporates dialectical-behavioral informed skills that teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Those skills help when feelings feel overwhelming or when someone struggles with impulsive reactions. Trauma-responsive care centers on pacing and safety, helping people process past experiences at a manageable pace and rebuild self-trust.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna works with each person to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts methods as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and try practical tools together in session.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let the therapist and client interact face to face, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule and to keep consistent contact as goals evolve.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English