Joana Sossaman, LPC, LPCC
Texas · 7 years in practice
Joana Sossaman is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and addiction concerns.
License and registration
- LPC, Texas
- 79734 · expires February 2027
- LPCC, New Mexico
- CTB-2023-0149 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1386147015 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Joana
Joana Sossaman is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and addiction concerns. She works with individuals who are ready to address relationship strain, cope with life changes, or rebuild self-esteem. Joana writes plans with each person to fit their situation and goals.
Joana uses plain conversation and practical steps in sessions. She listens for how past events affect daily life and helps clients develop ways to feel steadier and more in control.
Background and approach
Sessions may include talking through difficult memories, learning coping skills, and practicing new responses to stress. Her background includes work across clinical settings in Texas and New Mexico. Joana holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential, listed as LPC and LPCC.
She has seven years of experience supporting people through trauma, grief, addiction patterns, and anxiety disorders. Joana draws on several therapeutic approaches to fit the person in front of her. She uses trauma-focused methods and EMDR alongside existential ideas about meaning and choice.
The aim is to blend approaches so they address both symptoms and deeper life questions. She approaches setbacks as part of change rather than failure. Joana encourages small, repeatable steps and checks in on what’s working.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward, with attention to respect and sensitivity throughout the process.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joana lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Joana names
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Online support
How EMDR and trauma-focused care translate online
Joana integrates trauma-focused therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, into online work. Trauma-focused therapy centers on identifying how past events continue to affect current moods and behavior, then building strategies to reduce distress. EMDR involves guided processing of traumatic memories to lessen their emotional charge and can help with post-traumatic stress and panic symptoms. She also draws on existential therapy to help people clarify values, find meaning, and make deliberate choices when life feels uncertain. Choosing an approach is a team effort: the therapist and client discuss symptoms, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit the person's needs. Joana will check in regularly and adjust techniques based on how someone responds. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for hands-on processing and face-to-face conversation, while phone can work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible check-ins between sessions or for people who prefer written communication. These options make scheduling easier and let people continue therapy from different locations while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
Joana helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and related concerns like guilt, shame, and isolation.
How would you describe the therapist's approach and style?
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Joana blends trauma-focused work, EMDR, and existential ideas while using talk therapy and coping strategies to address day-to-day problems.
What is Joana's professional background?
She has seven years of clinical experience working in Texas and New Mexico settings, helping people with trauma, addictions, anxiety, and relationship concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
Joana holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices in New Mexico while also being licensed in Texas as noted by her LPC credential.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online therapy and check-ins.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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