Joni De Groot, LMFT

Joni De Groot is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 35 years of experience working with individuals, couples, children, and entire families across the lifespan, from ages 3 to 83. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that helps people identify recurring patterns and themes in how they relate to themselves, others, and the world, and she guides that discovery with respect for each person's perspective and pace.

Her clinical stance blends client-centered and cognitive-behavioral methods with elements of Jungian insight, family systems thinking, and mindfulness practices. That combination supports practical change while attending to deeper meaning and relational dynamics. Professionally, she has served as an intake coordinator and case manager in a sub-acute care facility and has worked as an individual, couples, group, and family therapist on multi-disciplinary teams in outpatient, school, and residential care settings. Her experience includes collaboration with psychiatrists and social service agencies such as Children’s Services, County Mental Health, and the Juvenile Justice system/Probation, as well as work within public and private educational settings.

Known for a practical yet holistic outlook, she helps clients expand their perspective to find relief and build stronger skills for managing stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, and children’s educational needs. She is experienced with online tele-therapy and offers a supportive, nonjudgmental environment aimed at practical, measurable steps toward change.