- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- LGBT
About Joni
Joni Rodriguez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 18 years of clinical and life experience. She brings personal insight to her work, including long-term recovery from addiction and lived experience with grief and neurodivergence. Joni draws on those perspectives to create a compassionate, down-to-earth space for people seeking help.
She focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, and relationship and intimacy challenges.
Background and approach
Joni also helps people facing ADHD, compassion fatigue, career stress, and body image or eating concerns. Her background includes work in domestic violence services, outpatient and residential addiction treatment, children's residential care, and crisis stabilization. Joni uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws from attachment-based ideas, client-centered practices, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, and emotionally focused techniques. Sessions emphasize clear information so clients understand their options and feel empowered to make choices. She offers practical tools for coping, communication, and mood management alongside space to process grief and trauma.
Joni aims for straightforward conversation and concrete steps someone can try between visits. Her online practice supports video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. People who want collaborative, experience-informed care tend to connect with her approach.
Joni welcomes conversations about parenting concerns and other life changes, and she works with each person to set realistic goals and next steps.
What Joni works with
Everything Joni lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Joni helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joni lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust, and how they relate to partners and caregivers. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasizes emotions in close relationships and can help people name and shift painful patterns in connection and communication.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will ask about your concerns, goals, and how you prefer to work, then recommend strategies and check in to adjust the plan. That way therapy stays relevant and practical for your life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls let you work face-to-face from home or elsewhere, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, shorter exchanges between appointments. These formats aim to make consistent care easier to schedule and maintain.
Questions people ask about Joni
What concerns does Joni commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting issues, relationship and intimacy-related problems, ADHD, and other life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She blends client-centered listening with practical strategies from cognitive and emotion-focused methods.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Joni has 18 years of experience that include on-site work in addiction treatment, domestic violence services, children's residential care, and crisis stabilization.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds an LPC, which is a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, and practices from Texas.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Joni offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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