Joanna Sanchez, LCSW

Joanna Sanchez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Alaska with over 15 years of experience helping individuals navigate emotional challenges, relationship concerns, and major life transitions. She holds a Master of Social Work (MSW), a graduate degree that prepares social workers for clinical practice, as well as a Master’s in Clinical Psychology. Her background includes outpatient therapy, residential treatment, and leadership roles in mental health and substance use care.

Joanna supports clients working through stress, anxiety, addiction recovery, trauma, abuse, and the strain that can come with significant change. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and does not treat therapy as a one-size-fits-all process. Instead, she tailors the work to match each client’s needs, goals, and pace.

Her style is warm, collaborative, and insight-oriented, with an emphasis on meaningful conversation that helps clients understand the deeper patterns behind what they are experiencing. Joanna often works from a relational and psychodynamic perspective, while integrating trauma-informed care, narrative therapy, and CBT when helpful. Above all, she listens carefully and works to help clients feel seen and supported as they explore what has been holding them back and what healing can look like moving forward.

Whether someone is coping with grief, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, or feeling disconnected from themselves, Joanna offers a steady space to reflect, process, and grow in a way that feels authentic. She recognizes the courage it takes to begin therapy and aims to walk alongside clients as they move toward greater clarity, connection, and wholeness.