About Joanne
Joanne Hernandez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship worries, and issues around self-esteem. She brings eight years of experience working with a wide range of concerns, including grief, trauma, addiction, and career-related stress. Joanne believes clients know their own stories and that therapy builds on existing strengths.
Sessions focus on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can talk through what feels hard and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused. Joanne works with clients to set short-term goals and to break larger problems into manageable tasks. That can include learning clearer communication, building routines for sleep and eating, or finding strategies to reduce anxiety and increase focus.
Joanne draws on evidence-based techniques delivered in an approachable way. She explains tools plainly, practices them together with clients, and adjusts steps based on what is helpful. The emphasis is on skills people can use between sessions to handle stress and life’s changes.
She practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. Joanne encourages people who are ready to make a change to take the first step and reach out for support.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Joanne uses practical, evidence-based techniques that are easy to understand and apply. She often teaches focused skills to manage anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning, helping clients build routines, sharpen attention, and reduce overwhelm. She also works with approaches that target coping after loss or trauma by developing step-by-step strategies to manage distress and return to daily activities.Choosing the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Joanne talks with each person about their goals, tries tools together, and adjusts methods based on what feels helpful. She aims to match techniques to clients' needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets people see and interact in real time, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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