Joanna White , LISW

Joanna White is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She focuses on women's issues and common concerns like self-esteem, grief, eating and body-image struggles, and the challenge of balancing work and parenting. Her tone is straightforward and practical for someone looking for clear support.

She began in criminal justice working with prisoner reentry and later completed a Master of Social Work at the University of Southern California. While earning her MSW she worked with people experiencing domestic and sexual violence. Those roles gave her views from both survivor and offender perspectives and shaped her approach to trauma work.

In sessions she aims to guide rather than direct. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking. She draws on acceptance and mindfulness skills to help people notice and live alongside difficult emotions. She also uses client-centered and emotionally focused ideas to build understanding and connection in therapy.

Joanna has about eight years of clinical experience working with trauma, disordered eating, parental stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. She pays attention to control issues, dissociation, and the guilt and shame that often follow abuse or loss. Her work includes practical strategies and coaching-style support when that fits a person's goals.

She practices in Ohio as an OH LISW. Sessions are conducted in English and offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.

How Joanna’s approaches work in online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It suits problems like stress, obsessive thinking, and some eating-related struggles. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients feel heard and can discover their own solutions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Joanna will talk through goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to match practical tools to each person's needs and preferences.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different routines. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and doing exercises together. Phone or shorter text check-ins can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and texting let people send updates or get brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, parenting, or travel.