Services

Core Services

Courage, strength and boundary setting:   recover from loss and rebuild your sense of self and your life.

• Eating Disorder Recovery: Reclaim your relationship with food, body, and self through customized support and effective strategies.

• Healing from Narcissistic Abuse: Empower yourself to overcome the effects of toxic relationships and reclaim your voice. Build resilience, heal from toxic dynamics, and keep narcissists out of your life.

• Personal Growth and Fulfillment: Navigate transitions and uncover your strengths and courage to confront rising negativity. Build a life of integrity and meaning. Navigate transitions with confidence and clarity.  Become who you were meant to be.

Approach

Joanna offers compassionate and effective virtual counseling for individuals struggling with eating disorders, providing a flexible, private, and accessible path to recovery from the comfort of your own space; drawing upon decades of experience, she expertly blends time-tested therapeutic approaches with the latest, evidence-based methods, ensuring personalized and impactful support tailored to each client's unique journey towards healing and well-being.

Meet Joanna

• Licensed since 1981, and she practices in  California, Arizona, Florida, and Oregon.
• Author of Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder (now available in audio).
• Offers personalized, compassionate care with specialties in PTSD, narcissistic abuse, trauma, loss, eating disorders and their aftermath. She addresses rebuilding challenges after recovery. She helps you understand and navigate painful and bewildering relationships, the value of establishing new boundaries, and building strength and courage to be more powerful, happy, and capable.

Philosophy

• I respect the healthy life force within you that needs to flourish so you can move beyond your present limits. In our conversations, I integrate evidence-based techniques, experience, and dream work to inspire your healing and personal growth.
• My focus is on mature adults navigating career blocks, loneliness, regret, limited and painful family relationships, and the impacts of early childhood trauma. Any and all of these issues can limit your decision-making and stall the courage you need to grow and be capable during the surprises the world offers us now.

Pricing

Fee-for-service model with superbills provided for potential insurance reimbursement.

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"Explore how private virtual psychotherapy with Joanna can help get you through your present hardships. I can guide you through your emotional challenges to the new strength and skills you need now. As the world around us transforms, we need to transform too.

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Details

• Virtual sessions available for residents in California, Utah, Arizona, Florida, and Oregon.
• Office hours: 10:15 to 4:15 PST, Monday through Thursday

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                Services

                Depending on your situation, I meet with you virtually once or twice a week—or more.

• You are free to speak about anything. My role is to listen, understand, and build trust with you.
• Together, we’ll explore the roots of your pain, understand your symptoms, and develop tools to create a life that aligns with your true self.
• My private practice offers a safe space where you can share your story and uncover hidden truths, which are often the keys to profound personal growth.