Joanne Slatinsky , LPC

Joanne Slatinsky is a Georgia-based licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 37 years of clinical experience helping people navigate life’s most difficult moments. She brings deep expertise in addressing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of other concerns including grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, and ADHD. Joanne works with people across the lifespan and has substantial experience supporting older adults, caregivers, and those living with chronic pain, illness, or disability.

Her therapeutic focus centers on understanding each person’s unique history and strengths, with attention to communication problems, family-of-origin issues, codependency, and intimacy-related concerns. Joanne integrates practical coping strategies and evidence-informed techniques to help clients manage life transitions, divorce and separation, infidelity, and feelings of isolation or guilt. She also addresses deeper emotional work around forgiveness, shame, and life purpose.

Joanne’s style is warm, respectful, and client-centered, emphasizing empathy and collaboration as people explore personal growth and healing. She draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-informed methods, and for clients who welcome it she can incorporate guidance from a Christian perspective that honors individual spiritual beliefs. Her aim is to accompany each person toward greater self-understanding and lasting change.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care

Joanne often integrates client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening, empathy, and building a respectful therapeutic relationship so clients can explore their values and goals at their own pace. This approach is helpful for people facing relationship challenges, life transitions, or the need to deepen self-understanding.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a practical method that helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop concrete skills for managing symptoms like anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT is action-oriented and often suits those looking for structured strategies to change behaviors and moods.

Mindfulness therapy is another tool Joanne employs to help people build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity to difficult thoughts and emotions. It can support coping with trauma-related symptoms, chronic stress, and sleep or eating concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Joanne works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to tailor methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences, and she is open to integrating spiritual perspectives when clients request that.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to connect in the ways that fit their schedules and comfort levels while maintaining continuity of care with their therapist.