About Joanna
Joanna Loftus is a Licensed Professional Counselor who blends psychotherapy with creative approaches. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, bipolar disorder, and depression. Joanna speaks English and Polish and practices from Colorado.
She combines talk therapy and expressive art to help clients find new ways to name emotions. Joanna encourages simple, practical steps people can use between sessions. She often brings mindful practices into conversations to slow down strong feelings and notice patterns.
Background and approach
Joanna values strength-based work. That means she helps people recognize what already helps them cope and builds on those skills. She also addresses concerns such as abandonment, communication problems, and coping after disasters or significant loss.
Her practice includes support for impulse control struggles, mood and panic disorders, and addictions related to substances or behaviors. Joanna aims to help people reduce shame and move toward forgiveness and self-compassion. Sessions focus on what someone needs now and how to move forward one step at a time.
She has eleven years of clinical experience. Joanna frames therapy as a collaborative process where creative tools and straightforward talk work together. Her style is calm, practical, and rooted in methods shown to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.
How creative methods and online care work together
Joanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside creative expression. One approach she draws on emphasizes mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away. This can help with anxiety, panic, and mood shifts by teaching simple attention skills. Another common strand in her work involves trauma-focused practices that help people process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life. These methods aim to make distressing experiences feel more manageable and less overwhelming.Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. Joanna will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques and creative tools to try, and they adjust as progress unfolds.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for fuller conversation and visual exercises, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to continue consistent work regardless of location.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English, Polish