About Joanna
Joanna Hedin is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and challenges to self-esteem. She approaches each person with respect and steady support so they can speak honestly about what they are feeling. Joanna aims to make beginning therapy a practical, manageable step for someone who is worried or unsure.
With 15 years of experience Joanna uses straightforward methods that focus on what matters to the client now.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centered work to follow what the person brings to sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small, changeable steps. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used when relationship feelings and attachment are central to the issue.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce overwhelm and increase calm in daily life. Motivational Interviewing supports people who want clearer direction or stronger motivation to change. Joanna has worked across a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, depression, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and issues related to gender and sexual identity.
She also supports people coping with career stress, anger, and life transitions like divorce or loss. Sessions can include practical coping tools, gentle reflection on past experiences, and goal-focused planning. Joanna invites clients to set the pace and focus, and she adapts techniques to each person’s needs.
Her practice is based in Florida and she conducts work in English.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Joanna commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities, helping people feel heard and understood as they name their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to change patterns that cause distress.She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy when the heart of the issue involves strong relationship feelings. EFT helps people identify and name emotions that affect how they connect with others and then work toward more effective responses. Together with clients Joanna will clarify which approach fits best and adjust methods based on the person’s needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat are good for shorter check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit into work, caregiving, and day-to-day life while allowing ongoing progress with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English