About Jo
Jo Ann Farmer is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 19 years in behavioral health. She moved into counseling after receiving help herself during a difficult time, and now brings that experience to her work with individuals. Her manner is warm and practical, and she uses conversations to help people find clearer ways forward.
Her style is personable and interactive. Sessions aim to be a listening space with guidance and concrete steps when they are helpful.
Background and approach
She draws from Christian faith in her approach when clients want that perspective included. Jo Ann has worked with survivors of child abuse, trauma, and domestic violence. She also has experience with grief, divorce, family separation, blended family conflict, and compassion fatigue.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, addiction, and life transitions, and she lists attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among her areas of focus. Her counseling draws from several methods to match each person's needs. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow a client's lead, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and Solution-Focused Therapy to set practical short-term goals.
Techniques are chosen to fit what a person can use in day-to-day life. Jo Ann practices in Georgia and offers services in English. She aims to combine empathy with practical skills to help people cope and move forward.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Jo Ann commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s lead so people can feel heard and begin to make changes at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Jo Ann will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. She checks in about what feels useful and adjusts techniques as needed so the work matches the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more connection is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for brief updates, encouragement between sessions, or when writing out thoughts helps clarity. These options aim to increase flexibility and accessibility for people living in different places or balancing many responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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