Joanna Calderon

Overview

Joanna has a focus on and treats dissociative disorders in co-occurrence with trauma using counselling tools and techniques from a variety of therapeutic approaches such as Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), in combination with the FLASH protocol for rapid trauma processing. She also helps clients who come to the clinic with symptoms of de-personalization, de-realization, and dissociation concurrent with personality disorders, especially Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD. 

Additionally, Joanna specializes in treating addictions; she offers stigma-free, trauma-informed, recovery-based treatment to people who are interested in starting or already started their recovery journey. Her recovery approaches include concurrent counselling treatment to assist clients in their recovery better. In her work with addictions, Joanna uses assessments for differential diagnosis and various modalities to address psychological comorbidity of addictions as follows: Cognitive remediation to improve core symptoms and stabilize mood; Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy EFIT and FLASH protocol to treat the concurrent trauma and post-traumatic stress; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT to treat co-occurring anxiety and depression disorders.