Joanne Waithaka, LMFT
Virginia · 28 years in practice
Joanne Waithaka is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 28 years of experience.
License and registration
- LMFT, Virginia
- 0717001471 · expires June 2026
- LMFT, Massachusetts
- LMFT1153 · expires December 2027
- LMFT, North Carolina
- 2409 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1407949431 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Joanne
Joanne Waithaka is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 28 years of experience. She helps people navigate relationship struggles, family conflict, parenting stress, depression, trauma, and big life changes. Joanne works with adults who want clearer communication and more stable connections at home and work.
She uses practical, evidence-informed approaches. Sessions focus on what’s happening between people and on small changes that make daily life easier. Conversations are direct and compassionate, with concrete steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Joanne draws on Systemic Therapy to look at patterns in relationships and family life. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values, and Narrative Therapy to reshape the stories that keep them stuck. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set short-term goals and measure progress.
Her background includes long experience helping people with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, immigration, military and veteran issues, and blended family dynamics. She also supports people facing abandonment, attachment, guilt, shame, infidelity, and divorce or separation. Joanne holds a Master of Arts and is an LMFT licensed in North Carolina and practices in Virginia.
Her style balances steady guidance with practical coaching. Many clients appreciate the mix of relational focus and goal-oriented work.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Joanne lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Workplace issues
Approaches Joanne names
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Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Joanne uses Systemic Therapy to trace patterns between people and identify small shifts that change interactions. That approach helps when communication problems, blended family issues, or parenting strains keep repeating. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and actions; it helps people tolerate hard feelings while moving toward what matters to them, useful for depression or midlife transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so therapy stays practical and goal oriented.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video helps when visual cues matter, phone can be a quicker check-in with lower bandwidth, and messaging supports shorter notes or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or travel and to try different formats as needs change.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Joanne address?
She supports people with relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is practical and focused on relationship patterns. Conversations aim to clarify problems and produce small, doable changes.
How much professional experience does she have?
She brings 28 years of clinical experience working with adults on relational and life transition issues.
What credentials and location apply to this therapist?
She holds an MA and is an LMFT licensed in North Carolina, and she practices in Virginia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Joanne offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
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