Joana Sossaman
Calm, practical support for stressful times
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joana
Joana Sossaman is a licensed counselor who offers practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, and trauma. She speaks plainly and aims to make first steps feel doable. Her approach centers on respect, sensitivity, and steady encouragement for anyone ready to try something different.
Joana adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She focuses on what is helpful now, not on labels. She uses evidence-informed methods that match a client's goals and comfort level.
Background and approach
She brings seven years of clinical experience and holds licensure in both Texas and New Mexico - Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC). That background includes work supporting people with relationship and intimacy-related concerns and with complicated grief or compassion fatigue. Joana also addresses issues like codependency, control struggles, dissociation, and family of origin patterns.
She works with complex symptom clusters such as panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and process addictions including gambling or exercise-related problems. In sessions she helps people talk through guilt, shame, isolation, self-harm thoughts, and rebuilding self-worth. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, guiding clients toward clearer choices and practical next steps.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Existential Therapy looks at personal meaning and choices. It helps people clarify values and find purpose when life feels uncertain or overwhelming. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of distress tied to painful memories by using guided bilateral stimulation and structured processing. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates directly on the effects of trauma and on rebuilding safety, coping skills, and day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about their history, goals, and comfort level and then suggest methods that fit. Decisions about technique are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue care from home or another convenient location. The range of options also allows for flexible check-ins, brief support between meetings, or regular weekly sessions depending on what a person needs.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Joana
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point