Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
I am licensed in South Carolina with 32 years of professional work experience. My purpose is to help you learn to take back control of your thoughts, emotions, and actions so you can achieve the results you want. Taking charge of your life requires you to first look within. Where are you at now? What is your story? Where do you want to go? Our work together will encourage a shift in your thinking, giving you the power to identify new skills and greater self-awareness, resulting in a transformation you never imagined. Stop seeing yourself as broken or something needing to be fixed. In the story of your life, you are an authentic character with worth and value just as you are. Through curiosity, self-compassion, acceptance, courage, and vulnerability, growth and desired change is inevitable. You will become empowered to find relief from stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, and low levels of confidence. It is my belief and intention to help you see how the challenges and obstacles you have experienced have strengthened you, not broken you. Taking this brave first step to look within is your first step to becoming who you want to be.
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JoAnn Ristau is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina (SC LPC 2703) with 33 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people regain control of their thoughts, emotions, and actions so they can reach the outcomes they want.
Her approach invites clients to begin by looking inward – assessing where they are now, understanding their story, and clarifying where they want to go. That self-exploration serves as the foundation for practical change.
Working together, JoAnn encourages shifts in thinking that reveal new skills and greater self-awareness, opening the way to transformations clients may not have imagined possible. She asks people to move away from seeing themselves as broken or in need of repair and instead to recognize their intrinsic worth and authenticity.
Using curiosity, self-compassion, acceptance, courage, and vulnerability, JoAnn supports growth and the pursuit of meaningful change. She helps people find relief from stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, family conflicts, and low confidence, guiding them to discover how past challenges have strengthened rather than diminished them.
Taking the first brave step to look within is, in JoAnn’s view, the beginning of becoming who a person wants to be.
Many people wonder whether remote therapy truly helps. For common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, or navigating life changes, online therapy has been shown to be just as effective as traditional in-person sessions.
One major benefit is flexibility – individuals can connect in the mode that suits them best, whether by video call, phone session, live chat, or in-app messaging. That adaptability makes it easier to integrate therapy into a busy schedule.
All therapists involved are licensed professionals, and individuals have the option to change therapists if they want a different fit. This approach preserves the professional standards of therapy while offering more ways to access support.
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