Joni Rodriguez, LPC

Joni Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of experience. She came to counseling after deep personal loss and long recovery from addiction, and those life events shape how she supports people now.

She focuses on trauma and PTSD, addiction recovery, depression, anxiety, and related mood concerns. She also helps people navigating grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, and challenges tied to ADHD and chronic health conditions. Her work includes attention to body image, attachment concerns, and caregiver stress.

Joni blends practical talk therapy with problem-solving tools. She listens first and helps people set clear goals. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and building stronger emotional connections with others.

Her background includes many years working in on-site settings with survivors of domestic violence, residential addiction programs for men and women, children’s residential care, and crisis stabilization. Joni also draws on lived experience: nearly two decades in recovery and a personal history of grief that led her to counseling.

She uses an informed consent approach so people understand their options and can make choices that fit their life. Joni welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBTQIA and those who are neurodivergent. People interested in starting are asked to complete a short questionnaire to match with her and schedule a session.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early relationships shape how people connect today. It helps when trust, closeness, or recurring hurt in relationships cause distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports people who live outside the therapist’s local area, including international clients, while the clinician and client determine the best schedule and approach.