Joanne Deal, LPC

Joanne Deal is a licensed, master's-level counselor based in Connecticut who helps people navigate relationship struggles, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and a wide range of life changes. With nine years of professional experience, she brings an empathetic, family-focused perspective to therapy and often explores how early life experiences and attachment patterns continue to shape present-day reactions and relationships.

Joanne practices in an eclectic manner, selecting tools and techniques that fit each person's needs rather than relying on a single model. She frequently integrates Attachment-Based work to address relational wounds, Client-Centered methods to honor each person's lived experience, and Cognitive Behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her practice also includes attention to trauma-informed care, couples and family dynamics, parenting support, and work with clients on the autism spectrum, including Asperger's and high-functioning Autism.

Clients who work with Joanne can expect collaborative goal setting, clear priorities, and practical tasks between sessions such as reading or skill practice - approaches she believes reinforce change beyond the therapy hour. She is comfortable supporting clients who hold strong faith or cultural values and often frames concerns in the context of family systems and ongoing relationships. Joanne holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - indicating she completed a graduate counseling program and met state licensing requirements. She is also a Nationally Certified Counselor, a designation that reflects national standards in the counseling profession.

Her background includes academic honors in undergraduate study and a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling. Joanne approaches counseling as a process of growth across emotional, relational, spiritual, and existential dimensions, and she partners with people ready to do the real work of change.