Joanna Sanchez, LCSW

Licensed in Alaska · 15 years in practice

Joanna Sanchez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and major life changes.

License and registration

LCSW, Alaska: 200243 · expires June 2028
NPI: 1912552548 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 15
Languages: English, Spanish

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About Joanna

Joanna Sanchez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and major life changes. She offers calm, patient listening and focuses on understanding what’s driving someone’s patterns. Joanna works in both English and Spanish and practices from Alaska.

She brings 15 years of experience across outpatient care, residential treatment, and leadership roles in mental health and substance use services. That background gives her practical insight into addiction recovery and trauma-related concerns, and she uses that to shape conversations that matter.

Background and approach

Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and goals. Her style is warm, collaborative, and insight-oriented. Joanna often guides clients toward clearer self-understanding by talking through patterns, attachment concerns, communication issues, and the effects of past wounds.

She also helps people work through forgiveness, guilt, shame, and isolation. Joanna draws on a relational and psychodynamic perspective, and she brings trauma-informed care alongside narrative approaches and cognitive behavioral ideas when helpful. She aims to make space for reflection while also offering practical steps people can try between sessions.

People seeking help with life purpose, young adult transitions, compassion fatigue, or specific struggles like sex addiction or post-traumatic stress will find direct, straightforward support. Joanna focuses on being present in the work and partnering with each person to find what helps them move forward.

Focus areas and approaches

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Online support

How Joanna’s Approaches Work Online

Joanna uses a relational and psychodynamic perspective to help people understand recurring patterns and early relationship influences that shape current feelings. This approach is useful for concerns like attachment issues, abandonment worries, and long-standing emotional patterns.

She also incorporates trauma-informed care and elements of narrative work to help people tell and reframe their stories after difficult experiences. These approaches can be helpful for processing trauma, post-traumatic stress, and the emotional fallout of abuse. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used selectively to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping when that feels practical.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Joanna collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She will check in and adjust the plan as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and useful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging helps with ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity across the course of care.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of problems does Joanna address?

She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction recovery, and life changes. Additional focuses include attachment, communication, and feelings of isolation.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her approach is warm, collaborative, and insight-oriented, with an emphasis on talking through patterns and building self-understanding. She blends reflection with practical steps when helpful.

What is her professional background?

Joanna has 15 years of clinical experience that include outpatient therapy, residential treatment, and leadership in mental health and substance use care.

Where is Joanna based and what are her credentials?

She works from Alaska and holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Can sessions be conducted in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.

Which session formats are available?

Joanna offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet for therapy.

How are fees and billing handled?

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?

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