About Juanita
Juanita Bobo greets people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She writes in plain terms and listens for what matters most. People come to her with stress, anxiety, grief, work pressures, or challenges around relationships and addiction.
Her aim is to help individuals find practical steps that fit their life. She has twelve years of experience and holds licenses as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor and an LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor.
Background and approach
Juanita focuses on straightforward conversations that help clients notice patterns and try new ways of coping. Sessions are respectful and collaborative, not lecture-based. Her typical approach includes helping people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real life.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck or uncertain about next steps. Those methods are useful for anxiety, depression, addictive behaviors, and life transitions. Juanita’s work addresses many concerns, including parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing multicultural stress, workplace burnout, and end-of-life matters. She keeps goals concrete so progress is visible between sessions. Clients in North Carolina will find sessions offered by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging.
Juanita encourages people to start small, try one change, and reassess together as they move forward.
How Juanita Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Juanita uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking, testing it against reality, and practicing new ways of responding to stress, anxiety, sleep issues, or low mood.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel unsure about change. This method focuses on the client’s own reasons for wanting something different and builds confidence to try small steps toward goals like reducing substance use or improving work-life balance.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Juanita will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they plan a path forward and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy allows flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions suit deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works well with lower bandwidth or when camera use is not needed, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports brief updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, North Carolina
- Languages
- English