About Joni
Joni Spohn is a licensed clinical social worker with 34 years of practice in Illinois. She draws on long experience in and out of hospital settings to help people make sense of difficult moments. Joni meets each person where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps to move forward.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens for what matters most, then works with clients to set small goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include short tasks or reflections to do between meetings or during the session itself. Joni helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, and intimacy-related concerns.
Parents and people managing blended family issues or aging and geriatric concerns may also find her approach useful. Her work draws on several well-known approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and the Gottman Method for relationship issues. These tools are used to teach skills, improve communication, and build more helpful patterns over time.
Clients can expect practical suggestions and a focus on problem solving. Joni aims to make therapy feel useful from the start, with clear steps and supportive guidance. Her background in varied clinical settings informs a flexible, experience-based practice.
Online approaches and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy invites people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change painful interaction habits in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses practical exercises to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist talks with each person about their goals and preferences and together they pick methods that fit. That collaboration makes it easier to try techniques and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls provide face-to-face time when more in-depth conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is helpful. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused communication during a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow therapy to fit into different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English