Joanne Masters

Joanne Masters is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 16 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and family-related concerns. Joanne focuses on practical help for people feeling stuck after big changes or struggling with everyday overwhelm. Joanne draws on experience from private practice, emergency room settings, and outpatient behavioral health clinics. She uses straightforward conversations to identify what is getting in the way of a client’s goals. Sessions often include learning coping skills, improving communication, and managing strong emotions. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when those issues appear. Work can include handling family of origin problems, blended family adjustments, divorce and separation, or caregiver stress. Joanne also addresses body image, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and infidelity when they are relevant to a person’s concerns. Her approach is practical and action oriented. Clients can expect concrete tools to reduce anxiety, strategies for ADHD-related challenges, and steps to repair or set boundaries in relationships. She helps people practice new skills between sessions. Outside of clinical work, Joanne is a parent to seven children and reads in her spare time. That life experience informs her understanding of family pressures and everyday resilience. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a first session.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online sessions

Joanne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can use right away. One approach she often applies helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety and depression - breathing and grounding exercises, activity planning, and step-by-step emotion regulation. These methods aim to reduce overwhelm and make daily life easier to manage.

She also works with attention and behavior strategies useful for people with ADHD. That can include structuring routines, breaking tasks into smaller steps, and practicing short behavioral experiments to improve focus and follow-through. These practical tools are intended to fit into a person’s normal day. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client figure out which techniques match the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress and challenges become clearer. Confirm the exact session formats before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They also make it possible to work on real-life skills in context, so techniques learned in session can be practiced between meetings.