Joanna Krasnisky, LCSW

Joanna Krasnisky, LCSW

Joanna (or Jo) specializes in working with children, teens, and families challenged from anxiety, PTSD, mild to moderate depression, post-natal depression, attachment challenges, substance abuse, identity or transition difficulties, and acute/complex trauma (including generational, systemic, and historical). She also provides individuals and/or couples seeking infant mental health treatment to provide attachment, emotional health, and developmental guidance.  Joanna’s spiritual quest guided her to study in India to become a certified yoga teacher.  She is passionate about wholistic healing and believes that within a safe environment ‘bottom-up’ approaches can be a beneficial supplement to traditional talk and or play therapies. (Our bodies hold so much wisdom and can teach us so much.  Sometimes our issues can get stuck in our tissues).

Joanna consistently provides an unconditional positive regard, warmth, and authenticity within the therapeutic relationship. She believes that in order for organic and long term healing to take place, a strong therapeutic alliance needs to form and be assessed over the course of treatment. Her framework is culturally humble, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based. One of Joanna’s core beliefs is that change is only effective is there is a level of autonomy and self-empowerment. You are the expert of your self and your life.  Joanna’s clinical training during and after Fordham and the University of Michigan, has been in trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, internal family systems, infant mental health/attachment-based, play-therapy, trauma-conscious yoga method, mindfulness based-substance abuse treatment, and humanistic psychology. Before moving to California, Joanna provided individual, family, and group therapy within community mental health, health, schools, and child welfare systems in NYC and Michigan. She looks forward to meeting you on your path towards healing and wellness.