Joanna Lovinger
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsShe/Her/Hers
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT Specialties • Insurance & Fees • LocationsJoanna Lovinger is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and a specialization in Spiritual and Depth Psychology. She studied Infant, Early Childhood, and Parent Psychotherapy at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. She's also a Certified First Responder Counselor.
Her work with adults focuses on reducing anxiety, improving mood, and helping clients find their voice and purpose in life. She helps clients become unstuck creatively. She helps to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. And she helps clients strengthen and enrich their relationships, starting with the relationship they have with themselves. Her approach to counseling is tailored to each client, but it’s a blend of psychodynamic, depth psychology, attachment theory, narrative therapy, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Joanna has been a writer for 16 years and brings humor and creativity to her work as a therapist. In addition to her professional training, her life experiences give her a deep understanding of the complex issues surrounding adoption. Joanna welcomes the opportunity to work with adult adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. She provides couples counseling for couples who are struggling to stay together as they process the grief and loss of infertility. And she works with clients of all ages, who struggle with repetitive painful thoughts, sadness, languishing, and grief.
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Artists' mental health - Understanding of highly creative minds; goal setting related to the artistic and creative process; support finding meaningful balance in one’s life
Codependency - Development of healthy boundaries in relationships; strategies for increasing individual self-esteem and autonomy; coping mechanisms for separation and individuation.
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Loss, grief, and bereavement - Emotionally preparing for the anticipated passing of a loved one; managing feelings and reactions to a death or loss of significance; support during the process of healing and acceptance
Self-esteem - Cultivating self-compassion, assertiveness, and confidence; developing ways to reduce suffering, anxiety, social withdrawal, and self-neglect
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Years of Experience: 9 years
Lovinger Therapy, marriage and family therapist, 2019 - Present
Antioch University Los Angeles, Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, 2015
California: 111206
English
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