- Stress and anxiety
- Parenting support
- Workplace issues
About Joanne
Joanne Pisani is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and anger. She combines practical strategies with a calm, straightforward style so people can feel more capable in daily life. Joanne works from a strengths-based perspective and aims to make therapy feel useful and doable.
Joanne has 18 years of experience in mental health and education, including long service as an elementary school counselor and work coordinating youth and family services. She has also held leadership roles in school-based pupil personnel services. That background shapes how she supports parents and adults dealing with family problems, workplace issues, postpartum concerns, and the ongoing effects of trauma.
Her approach mixes traditional psychotherapy with mindfulness, attention to lifestyle factors, and practical health ideas when helpful. She helps people explore attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, commitment worries, and responses to sexual assault and abuse.
Joanne’s style is collaborative. She and the person seeking help set goals together and try methods that fit day-to-day life. Her experience includes supporting people facing paranoia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and school-related behavioral challenges, as well as guiding recovery after trauma.
Joanne holds the LMHC credential, and she lives and practices in New York. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking and follow the site’s process to begin therapy.
Approaches that support work and wellbeing online
Joanne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and daily coping. One approach she draws on involves mindfulness practices that teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and quiet anxious thinking. These methods can help people manage workplace pressure, parenting stress, and symptoms of anxiety.Another strand of her work concentrates on traditional talk therapy aimed at understanding relationship patterns and attachment concerns. This helps people notice repeating behaviors, try new responses, and improve communication in close connections and at work.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanne will work with each person to match methods to their goals and life circumstances, adjusting strategies as needed. The conversation about fit is part of early sessions and continues over time.
Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because the profile does not list specific formats. Many people value online work for fitting therapy around busy schedules, shortening commute time, and making it easier to check in during a break. If you prefer a shorter phone check-in, fewer video sessions, or a regular online meeting, confirm which options Joanne currently offers when you schedule.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
18+ years
Credentials
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Joanne commonly help with?
She assists people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family problems, parenting strain, and anger. She also focuses on issues like attachment, body image, chronic illness and workplace problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Joanne uses a collaborative, practical approach that blends psychotherapy with mindfulness and lifestyle ideas. Sessions tend to focus on steps you can try between meetings to improve daily functioning.
What is her professional background?
She has 18 years of experience in mental health and education, including long work as an elementary school counselor and roles coordinating youth and family services and pupil personnel services.
What credential does Joanne hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and practices in New York.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions structured and what formats are available?
The original profile does not specify session formats; please confirm current session options before booking so you know whether online or in-person meetings are possible.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.