About Joni
Joni Spohn is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 34 years of experience offering psychotherapy in Illinois. She draws on long practice across hospital and community settings to help clients untangle persistent patterns, process difficult events, and build practical skills for everyday life.
Background and approach
Her work integrates evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness-infused strategies, and attachment-informed perspectives to tailor care to each person’s goals. Joni emphasizes collaborative problem solving and often introduces structured between-session work to reinforce change.
She is comfortable addressing a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction, self-esteem, grief, family dynamics, and concerns related to sexuality and identity. Additional interests include blended family dynamics, aging and geriatric issues, codependency, infidelity, and coping with life changes or disaster-related stress.
Clients can expect a professional yet approachable style that affirms their experiences while offering tools for coping and communication. Therapy aims to help people clarify values, strengthen relationships, and develop concrete strategies they can practice both in and outside sessions.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Treatment Options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and commit to actions that align with what matters most, while teaching skills to accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than struggle with them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress through practical exercises and skill building. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current connections and emotional responses, offering ways to improve communication and closeness in important relationships.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with clients to assess needs, goals, and personal preferences and then tailors methods accordingly, combining elements from different models when that best supports progress. This collaborative stance aims to create a therapy plan that feels relevant and workable for each person.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing work to continue despite busy schedules or geographic constraints. These options make it easier to maintain momentum between sessions and to practice strategies in real-world contexts, while offering a range of formats so clients can pick what fits their lifestyle and comfort level.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English