Joni De Groot

Joni De Groot is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 35 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship and parenting challenges, and find practical ways to cope during major life transitions. Her work is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at clear steps that reduce daily strain.

Joni uses a client-centered style combined with cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to build calm and awareness. She also draws on dialectical behavior strategies and Jungian perspectives when they fit the client's goals.

Her background includes roles as an intake coordinator, case manager, and therapist in sub-acute care, outpatient clinics, schools, and residential settings. She has worked with multidisciplinary teams that included psychiatrists, social service agencies, and educational programs. That experience informs a practical, systems-aware approach to common family and school concerns.

Sessions focus on making useful changes that fit a person's life. Joni aims to help people strengthen communication, set clearer boundaries, and develop coping skills that carry into home and work. She also supports parents who are balancing caregiving stress and school-related issues for their children.

Joni offers tele-therapy and frames sessions as a collaborative space to try new strategies. She encourages small, measurable steps so progress is visible and sustainable over time.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Joni combines Mindfulness Therapy with Client-Centered Therapy and cognitive behavioral techniques in ways that work well online. Mindfulness Therapy invites simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm, which can help with stress, anxiety, and parenting overwhelm. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s perspective so the client feels heard and can choose useful changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers clear steps to change thought patterns and behaviors that maintain anxiety or relationship problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Joni treats the choice of methods as collaborative, adapting practices to the client's goals, lifestyle, and what feels manageable. She helps people try techniques and checks in to see what fits and what to change.

The biography notes she is comfortable with tele-therapy, but specific session formats were not fully detailed. Before booking, confirm which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people practice new skills between sessions in real-life contexts and brings therapy into the routines where change needs to stick.