About JoAnn
JoAnn Park is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She works from New York and draws on long experience with anxiety, depression, and addictions. JoAnn uses practical conversation and steady support to help people find clearer steps forward.
JoAnn adapts her approach to each person. She often blends psychodynamic ideas with client-centered and solution-focused methods. That means she pays attention to how past patterns affect present life, while also focusing on small, doable changes in day-to-day routines.
Background and approach
She has spent many years working with substance use concerns and is familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous and addiction recovery patterns. JoAnn also routinely helps people manage grief, stress, sleep and eating problems, and post-traumatic stress. She addresses relationship and intimacy worries as well as communication problems, jealousy, and infidelity concerns.
Mindfulness practices and cognitive techniques are part of her toolkit when they fit the person’s needs. JoAnn supports people dealing with shame, guilt, social anxiety, panic attacks, and compassion fatigue. She also attends to issues related to prejudice, LGBT concerns, and veteran and armed forces issues.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. JoAnn listens for patterns, asks practical questions, and helps people try different ways of coping. Many clients find this mix of understanding background and focusing on concrete steps helpful when facing life changes.
How JoAnn’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows what feels most important to the person, helping them find their own solutions to stress, grief, and relationship pain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice thoughts and habits that increase anxiety or low mood and then practice small changes. It can be useful for panic attacks, sleep and eating problems, and everyday worry.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how emotions show up in relationships and helps people name and shift patterns that create distance or conflict. It can help with intimacy, communication problems, jealousy, and forgiveness work.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and the issue at hand. That collaboration makes it easier to try strategies and adjust them over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break during the day. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins or practicing skills between meetings. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English