Joanne Pisani, LMHC

Joanne Pisani is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family concerns, parenting challenges, and anger. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on helping people develop skills they can use day to day. Her work also addresses issues like body image, chronic illness and pain, attachment and abandonment concerns, postpartum depression, and the effects of sexual assault and abuse.

Joanne combines traditional psychotherapy with mindfulness and lifestyle strategies when appropriate. She emphasizes simple, actionable steps - breathing and grounding exercises, routine changes, and communication skills - that clients can try between sessions. This approach comes from nearly two decades working in both education and mental health settings.

Her background includes roles in school systems and program coordination that involved individual, group, and family counseling. That experience informs how she helps people manage workplace stress, parenting strain, and family problems. She also draws on a long history in fitness and wellness to support behavioral and lifestyle change.

Joanne holds a Doctor of Education and master’s degrees in School Counseling and Mental Health Counseling. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside integrative methods aimed at supporting both mental and physical well-being.

She practices in New York and conducts sessions in English. People who are outside the United States are not currently accepted. To start, readers are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online work

Joanne often combines traditional psychotherapy with mindfulness and integrative lifestyle strategies. Mindfulness involves short attention exercises and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and support stress management; these are easy to practice between sessions. Integrative lifestyle approaches look at routines, movement, and nutrition to support emotional wellbeing and can help when chronic pain or illness affects daily life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust these over time based on what feels useful.

Confirm the current session options before booking. When available, online formats can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when helpful, and reduce travel time. Some approaches - like brief skills coaching or mindfulness practice - adapt well to remote sessions, while others may need more discussion to set goals and plan homework. The therapist will help plan sessions so they fit into everyday life and meet practical needs.