Joanna Ulloa, LMHC

Joanna Ulloa is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with four years of clinical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers bilingual care in English and Spanish and works with clients across a wide range of concerns including abandonment, codependency, communication problems, control issues, family difficulties, guilt and shame, and life purpose questions.

Joanna emphasizes an open and nonjudgmental therapeutic environment where thoughts and emotions can be explored honestly. She helps clients build coping strategies, strengthen self-worth, and navigate difficult transitions by combining evidence-based therapeutic techniques with a collaborative, person-centered approach. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to meet each person where they are, offering practical tools and emotional support to foster resilience and more satisfying relationships.

Licensed in New York as an LMHC - NY LMHC 014263 - Joanna tailors her work to each individual, attending to symptoms such as panic attacks, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and issues commonly affecting young adults and women. Her practice focuses on helping clients move from feeling stuck toward clearer goals, healthier patterns, and greater self-compassion.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Joanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One approach centers on skills-based work to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts and patterns, helping reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms by teaching strategies for daily coping and problem solving. Another approach emphasizes emotion-focused work for processing grief, shame, and trauma-related responses, guiding clients through understanding and integrating difficult feelings to find relief and forward momentum. She also incorporates relational and communication-focused methods to help clients improve boundaries, reduce codependent patterns, and repair or navigate important relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Joanna collaborates with each person to determine which techniques best match their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. She adapts methods over time as needs evolve, working together with clients to set goals and measure progress.

Online therapy with Joanna offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, maintain continuity of care during transitions, and access support from familiar surroundings while working toward clearer thinking, improved relationships, and greater emotional balance.