About Joanne
Joanne Slatinsky is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with 37 years of experience helping people through anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship pain. She uses a calm, direct style and aims to make sessions feel like a steady place to sort through hard feelings. Joanne meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and attention-related challenges such as ADHD.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with big life changes, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and aging-related worries. Joanne pays attention to how family history and communication patterns shape current struggles. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with structured tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused techniques.
Mindfulness approaches and motivational interviewing are available when clients want to build awareness or find motivation to change. She adapts tools to each person rather than following a single method. Joanne also respects spiritual concerns and can include a Christian perspective when a person prefers that angle.
That element is offered as one option among others, and the focus stays on the client's goals. Her style balances empathy with clear, doable strategies. People who want help sorting values, improving communication, managing anger, or rebuilding after loss often find her practical approach useful.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit varied schedules.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Joanne combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people working online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters to the person, which helps people feel heard and begin to name what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offers clear steps to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help clients notice stress and build simple practices that reduce reactivity. Choosing the right method is a collaborative process - the therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then together decide which approaches to try and when to adjust them.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face connection for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and messaging or live chat can serve as shorter check-ins or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or daily life while still using established therapeutic tools.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English