Joni De Groot

Joni De Groot is a California-licensed therapist with 35 years of clinical experience, serving individuals, couples, groups, children in play therapy, and whole families across the life span from ages 3 to 83.

She practices as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (CA LMFT 29377) and uses a collaborative, client-centered approach that blends cognitive-behavioral methods with a Jungian perspective, family systems thinking, and mindfulness-oriented work.

Her professional background includes roles as an Intake Coordinator and case manager, as well as therapist work in a sub-acute care facility. She has provided individual, couples, group, and family therapy on multi-disciplinary teams in outpatient, school, and residential care settings, and has worked alongside psychiatrists and social service agencies such as Children’s Services, County Mental Health, and the Juvenile Justice system/probation. She has also practiced within both public and private schools.

Practical and holistic in orientation, Joni brings a wide-angle, big-picture perspective to supporting people through stress and anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and issues that affect functioning at home and work including children’s educational needs. She frames therapy as an enlivening exploration that aims to create measurable relief and stronger coping skills.

Joni is comfortable with online tele-therapy and creates an open, nonjudgmental environment where thoughts and feelings can be expressed and explored. She partners with clients to support the decisions they choose to make toward meaningful change.