About Joanette
Joanette Pulskamp-Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She practices in Colorado and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. Joanette focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
She works with clients who face relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction and substance issues, and challenges around sleep and eating. Joanette also supports people coping with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, caregiver strain, and the fallout of family-of-origin problems.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric issues, and medical-related stress such as cancer caregiving. Joanette uses straightforward, evidence-based approaches to create a clear plan for change. She listens first, then helps clients set practical goals.
Sessions often focus on skills people can use between meetings - for managing intense emotions, improving communication, or changing unhelpful habits. The pace and tools in therapy are adjusted to each person. Some weeks involve problem-solving and behavioral experiments.
Other weeks focus on processing grief, trauma, or long-standing patterns that cause pain. Joanette aims to help people build resilience and better day-to-day coping. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
Joanette holds credentials as LCSW and CSW in Colorado and LISW in Ohio, listed with the following details: CO LCSW CSW.09930845 and OH LISW I.1000090-supv. These credentials are part of her clinical background and practice in Colorado.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most to someone and taking small, values-driven steps toward those goals. It helps with anxiety, depression, and life changes by teaching people to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce panic, improve sleep, and ease low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanette will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone meetings use less bandwidth and can fit into a short work break. Live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life, while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Colorado
- Languages
- English