Johanté Wood, LCPC
Therapist
Locations:
Maryland
Insurances
About
Johanté has over 10 years of experience working with adults, couples, and teens from diverse backgrounds. She is equipped to manage cases from trauma and co-occurring disorders to anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, adjustment issues, and relationship concerns. She has served veterans, intensive outpatient, mobile treatment, virtual care, and homeless populations. Through her positive approach to counseling and advocacy for client self-care, Johanté has seen clients improve and advocate to maintain their overall health throughout her treatment. Johanté is here to help you explore ways to cope with emotional distractions, invalidations, and negative-self talk. Johanté can challenge you to improve self-care and redefine communication patterns. She offers a validating space to heal, grow, and discover your optimal self. As a mother of two little girls, a wife, and full-time therapist, Johanté understands how to create healthy balance where there is no balance.
Johanté has a positive and inviting personality and uses an eclectic approach to therapy to ensure a person-centered experience that clients value. Johanté utilizes treatment interventions from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal therapy, strengths-based therapy, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed, and mindfulness-based therapy to help clients achieve their treatment goals. Johanté is caring, she understands diverse backgrounds, she seeks to help you improve your overall well-being, and encourages you to live a life full of success stories.
She is a scholar at heart who also enjoys music, dance, being creative, and spending time with her family.
Locations:
Maryland
Credentials, Qualifications and Languages
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Loyola University Maryland, Master of Social Work, 2017
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Pepperdine University, BA Psychology
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Loyola University, MS Clinical Psychology
Why Healthcare
Johanté is passionate about providing quality mental health care to diverse clients because at an early age she learned that her vocation should be life work spent in areas of greatest need and connected to her passions. Johanté inspires to listen to your concerns entirely and provide skilled therapy sessions as this aligns with her vocation.
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