Joanna Lovinger(She/Her/Hers)

Joanna 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.