Joanne Sizemore
Practical support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Joanne
Joanne Sizemore is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse. Joanne explains things plainly and aims to make the first conversations straightforward and calm.
She creates a space where people can speak without judgment. Joanne listens closely and helps families and parents name what feels stuck. She works at a steady pace and encourages small, practical steps that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Joanne has supported clients through parenting challenges and family conflicts, including situations involving custody or visitation. She also addresses emotional reactions like anxiety and low mood. Her long experience means she has seen many different family situations and can draw on that background when helping clients find workable options.
In sessions she emphasizes clear communication and problem solving. Joanne helps people develop ways to reduce stress and manage difficult memories or reactions after trauma and abuse. She explains tools simply and practices them together with clients so they feel usable at home.
Joanne works in California as an LMFT, which stands for licensed marriage and family therapist. She offers conversational, goal-focused sessions aimed at helping families and parents build better routines, handle conflict, and improve emotional well-being.
Therapeutic approaches and online support for families
Many of Joanne's methods focus on practical, evidence-based techniques that help families communicate and manage stress. One approach emphasizes communication skills and problem solving to reduce conflict and improve routines at home. It helps parents set clear expectations and handle difficult conversations constructively.Another approach addresses trauma and its effects by teaching strategies to manage strong emotions and reactions. These techniques focus on grounding, slow exposure to difficult memories in manageable steps, and building new coping skills to ease day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanne works with each person or family to choose strategies that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on what is helping and what is not, so the plan evolves with the family.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules. These formats allow flexible meeting times and follow-up between sessions, so parents can try tools at home and discuss how they went in the next meeting.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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