Joanna truly believes that with the support of an experienced, focused, and dedicated therapist, growth and healing is possible no matter where you are in your journey. Her grounded, relational style provides a caring, knowledgeable and trusted space to move through change. Her therapeutic focus is to help her clients create a life they are excited and proud about! Working from a person-centered, holistic approach she blends cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, attachment and interpersonal therapies to individualize the best care for you.
Joanna’s passion for excellence in applying validated, evidence-based psychological theory to the art and practice of therapy, teaching, supervision and entrepreneurship is informed by her holistic approach to mental health and wellness. This passion has further afforded her a diverse competency and skill set that she brings to her work, in all that she does.
She did a clinical residency in eating disorders and successful work in multiple settings such as primary care, EFAP programs, and specialized grief and chronic pain programs, which provided her with additional opportunities to live out her passion and pursuit of excellence in her practice. She also values having served as an Ethics Examiner for the College of Alberta Psychologists and teaches and supervises undergraduate and graduate counselling students.
She provides expert care for adults and adolescents, individuals and couples. Some of the therapies and presenting concerns Joanna has received advanced training in include:
• CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) & DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
• Psychodynamic Therapy; Attachment-Based therapies
• Eating Disorders / Body Image / Emotional Eating / Food Addiction
• Health Psychology (Chronic Pain); Health Change Methodology
• Grief and Loss
• Anxiety / Depression
• Relationship Dynamics (including intimacy disorders such as sex addiction)
• Trauma & Addictions
• Sex Therapy
• Spirituality
• Gottman / IMAGO / Emotion Focused Therapy (Dr. Sue Johnson)
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) & A.R.T. (Accelerated Resolution Therapy)
In her personal life she enjoys spending time with family and friends and playing squash in a local city league. In her free time, you can find her walking in the outdoors, traveling, sampling the diverse cuisines of the city or curled up with a good book.
