Joanne Ricketts , LMFT

Joanne Ricketts is a California licensed therapist with 23 years of professional experience. She holds the LMFT credential - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - which reflects training in working with individuals, couples, and families. Over more than two decades she has supported people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and loss, depression, and challenges with self-esteem and motivation.

Her practice also focuses on attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, mood disorders, social anxiety and phobia, and workplace issues. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she adapts the conversation and treatment plan to the unique needs of each client. Joanne emphasizes practical coping strategies alongside relational work to address both immediate symptoms and underlying patterns.

She acknowledges that beginning therapy can take courage and views the therapeutic process as a journey toward greater wholeness and self-love. Joanne aims to create a supportive environment where clients can explore their goals, develop clearer communication, and build skills to manage mood, anxiety, and life transitions.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Joanne Ricketts works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are practical and goal oriented. She uses skills-based cognitive and behavioral strategies to help clients identify patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to stress, anxiety, and low mood, and to build tools for managing symptoms and improving daily functioning. She also offers attachment-informed relational work that explores relationship patterns, communication problems, abandonment concerns, and self-esteem issues to strengthen connection and interpersonal boundaries.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy, and Joanne collaborates with clients to determine which techniques best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review progress and adjust the plan so treatment stays relevant and effective.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult. These options support flexibility in scheduling and allow clients to access licensed professionals from familiar locations while working on stress, relationships, grief, and mood concerns.