About Juanita
Juanita Haskins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of clinical experience based in Virginia. She focuses on practical help for adults who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, or big life changes. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She aims to make the therapy space comfortable and accepting so people can speak openly. Juanita works with each person to identify small, doable changes. She helps clients learn new coping skills, manage overwhelming emotions, and break patterns that limit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills people can use between meetings to handle future problems. Her approach blends several methods to fit the person in front of her. Juanita draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She uses acceptance and mindfulness-based strategies to reduce struggle with strong emotions and urges. She also values attachment-focused work to look at how relationships shape current reactions. Dialectical behavior therapy techniques are used where emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities.
The goal is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes. Juanita commonly addresses concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, substance use, anger, low self-esteem, chronic illness and end-of-life issues. She helps people facing caregiving burden, compassion fatigue, and bereavement find clearer coping paths.
Work is tailored to the adult’s goals and paced to their readiness. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy flow.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting ruled by them. It focuses on values and small steps toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete exercises to shift unhelpful patterns, useful for panic, obsessive thinking, and mood struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current reactions and uses that insight to improve how a person relates to others and handles stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Juanita will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Over time she adjusts techniques based on what helps most, so therapy is a shared process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief updates and practice between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit care into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English