About Joanne
Joanne Mainberger is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, mood concerns, grief, and life changes. Joanne helps clients clarify what they want and take steps toward better daily functioning and wellbeing.
She believes counseling moves fastest when it focuses on strengths and practical change. Sessions emphasize understanding feelings and behaviors, and building straightforward skills to cope.
Background and approach
Joanne listens actively and uses what she learns about each person to shape sessions that fit their goals. Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She also brings existential and Jungian perspectives to help people find meaning and patterns that matter to them.
Joanne has experience with parenting concerns, family relationship issues, eating concerns, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, self-esteem problems, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care situations, aging and caregiver stress, blended family issues, and divorce or separation. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that align with their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often helpful for anxiety, eating concerns, and mood symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills, and can help when feelings feel overwhelming or relationships are strained.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will talk with each person about their situation, goals, and preferences, and they will decide collaboratively which techniques to try first. Progress is checked regularly and the plan is adjusted based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections, and flexible timing between scheduled sessions. These options make it simpler to fit counseling into work, caregiving, or other daily responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English