Joana Sossaman, LPC, LPCC

Joana Sossaman is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings a calm, respectful approach and speaks plainly about the steps people can take to feel steadier. Joana offers practical support for everyday struggles and encourages small, sustainable changes.

She uses a mix of approaches depending on what each person needs. Joana often draws on trauma-focused work and EMDR when past events keep affecting daily life. She also uses ideas from existential therapy to help people clarify values, meaning, and what matters most to them.

Joana has seven years of professional experience and holds LPC and LPCC credentials in the region. She tailors conversations and plans to match each person’s situation instead of offering a one-size-fits-all package. Her style aims to be direct yet compassionate so people feel heard and understood.

Common concerns she supports include addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, coping with life changes, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. Joana also addresses complex concerns such as dissociation, codependency, process addictions, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress.

People who choose Joana can expect partnership in setting goals and trying approaches that fit their daily life. She invites honest conversation about what’s working and what needs adjusting as therapy progresses. To begin, readers are encouraged to use the Start Therapy button and follow the matching and scheduling steps.

How Joana’s approaches fit with online therapy

Joana works with several approaches that often translate well to a remote setting. Existential therapy helps people clarify values and meaning through focused conversation, which can be done in regular sessions and homework between meetings. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that targets distressing memories and sensations; when used, it involves guided bilateral stimulation paired with processing of past events. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on reducing the ongoing impact of traumatic experiences by building coping skills and gradually processing difficult material.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joana collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. She reviews options and adjusts the plan based on how someone responds over time so therapy stays practical and useful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, limit travel time, and allow more consistent check-ins between appointments. It can also allow adjustments like shorter check-ins or sessions without video when that better suits a person’s needs.