About Joanne
Joanne Masters is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical ways to handle day-to-day struggles. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients feel more in control and less overwhelmed.
Joanne trained at The State University of New York College at Brockport and has worked in clinical settings since 2003.
Background and approach
Over her career she has practiced in personal settings, emergency rooms, and outpatient behavioral health clinics. Those varied roles shaped how she supports people during crises and in ongoing care. Her clinical focus includes trauma and abuse, post-traumatic stress concerns, behavioral issues, and challenges connected to family relationships.
Joanne helps clients build coping skills, improve communication, and address attachment and abandonment worries. She also works with issues such as body image, guilt and shame, and impulsivity. Joanne emphasizes a tailored approach.
She and the person she sees decide which techniques fit best and then practice skills that can be used between sessions. Sessions are meant to be practical and focused on measurable steps toward better daily functioning. Outside of work she enjoys reading and spending time with her seven children.
That personal experience informs her appreciation for resilience, connection, and the real pressures people juggle in family life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Joanne uses evidence-based techniques focused on practical skill building and trauma-informed care. Skill-based work concentrates on teaching tools for managing anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and mood symptoms. This approach helps people develop routines, organizational strategies, and short exercises they can practice between sessions.Trauma-informed methods focus on safety, pacing, and gradual processing of difficult memories or reactions. The emphasis is on helping people regain a sense of control and reduce distress through step-by-step techniques rather than forcing rapid change.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanne will work with each person to assess needs, try methods that make sense for their goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She focuses on what helps in daily life and invites feedback so the work stays relevant.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list specific options. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce time spent traveling, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and pacing to match a person's schedule and goals, helping therapy fit into everyday life without requiring major routine changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Florida, South Carolina
- Languages
- English