About Joana
Joana Sossaman is a Licensed Professional Counselor with experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, and trauma. She aims to offer respectful, compassionate support and to meet each person where they are. Joana frames therapy as a partnership to explore change at a pace that feels manageable.
Joana uses practical conversation to identify immediate coping skills for day-to-day stress and anxiety. She also addresses patterns that keep people stuck, such as codependency, control issues, and family of origin dynamics.
Background and approach
When trauma or abuse is involved, she brings focused care that looks at symptoms like panic, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress while helping clients rebuild a sense of safety and agency. Her work includes attention to addictions and process behaviors that interfere with life, as well as struggles with self-esteem, guilt, shame, and isolation.
Joana pays close attention to how emotional pain shows up in relationships and intimacy. She supports people coping with major life changes, grief, and compassion fatigue. Joana integrates existential ideas about meaning and choice into therapy, alongside trauma-focused strategies and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, when appropriate.
She explains options and creates a plan based on what the person wants to accomplish. With seven years of professional experience and licensure as LPC and LPCC, she practices from New Mexico. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to the individual's goals.
Joana encourages straightforward conversation about what is and isn't helpful, and she adjusts the path forward as needs evolve.
Approaches for trauma, meaning, and change online
Existential Therapy asks questions about meaning, choice, and values. It helps people clarify what matters to them, face difficult decisions, and find direction when life feels uncertain. This approach is useful for coping with life changes, low motivation, and questions about identity.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, is a structured method used to reduce the intensity of distress tied to traumatic memories. It focuses on processing specific events and can help with symptoms like panic, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts when trauma is a key concern.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on how past harm affects present behavior and emotions. It blends skill-building for symptom management with targeted work on traumatic memories and reactions, supporting recovery from post-traumatic stress and complex trauma patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which methods fit best for their goals, comfort level, and current needs. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on progress and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging work for shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English