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Telehealth Hours

  • Wednesday9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Thursday9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm
  • Saturday 9:00am - 12:00pm

Welcome to Core Counseling Connections

Choosing the right therapist in Arizona to help you with your mental and emotional health can be tough, especially when navigating challenges like retirement, divorce, relationship betrayal, or burnout. Personal therapy is deeply individual, and finding the right professional is crucial for improving wellness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal function.

You’re looking for someone with both the professional expertise to counsel you through life's transitions—whether you're a first responder facing high-stress situations, an executive seeking executive therapy, or someone simply starting over—as well as a personality that clicks with you. Plus, that provider needs to be accessible, available on Fridays and weekends, accepting new patients or clients, and affordable. Through Telehealth, we are reachable no matter where in Arizona you are, and we accept most insurances. Please contact us today with any questions!

Here at Core Counseling Connections, we are dedicated to supporting our clients through every stage of their mental and emotional health journey. Whether you're dealing with personal challenges or professional stressors, we offer weekend appointments, Telehealth sessions, and accept most insurances. Call us today. Click Here!

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Short Story About JoAnn

JoAnn Storms is a licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Arizona. JoAnn works with adults from eighteen to eighty. Many of JoAnn’s clients come in when they have relationship conflicts, anxiety, depression, and psychological trauma triggers. JoAnn is very passionate about serving couples and people with traumatic issues.

JoAnn is trained in Gottman Level 3 method couples therapy, which is a behavioral approach for conflict management. JoAnn is also trained in EMDR and certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). JoAnn works with strength based and solution focused approaches.

Our sessions together will be very caring and compassionate to your needs. JoAnn's clients have given positive feedback in feeling safe and understood, reassured and supported with insight and perspective that assist clients in progressing through their healing journey.

  • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
  • Master of Science in Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
  • Professional trainings
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Eye Movement Dessenistation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
  • Gottman method Couples Therapy-level 1, 2 & 3

Our Mission

I strive to offer my clients compassionate, insightful, and supportive counseling, creating a space for meaningful self-exploration. Through active listening, meeting you where you are, equipping you with valuable tools, and guiding you toward a path of healing and growth.

Our Values

We honor each individual's autonomy in choosing their treatment options, goals, and life direction, recognizing that true growth comes from within rather than from outside intervention. While our clinical expertise allows us to guide and support personal development, we believe in empowering individuals to make self-led decisions, alleviate their own suffering, and achieve their goals.

Through compassionate couples therapy, tailored individual counseling, and accessible Telehealth services, we provide the tools and guidance needed for meaningful progress.

Our Vision

We provide a welcoming and enriching therapeutic experience designed to foster wellness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal function within our diverse community. Whether supporting first responders, professionals seeking executive therapy, or individuals overcoming burnout, we are committed to promoting social and emotional well-being—not just for today, but for generations to come.

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SPECIALIZATION THERAPY

Gottman Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Person Centered Therapy and Solution Focused Therapies (SFT.) These therapies provide a supportive space, exploration, and personal growth.

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INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

Individual therapy is so helpful for so many people because it’s the best way to get truly customized therapy. Group therapy may have its own set of numerous advantages but if you want more control over the pacing of your therapy, the methods used, the amount of analysis or feedback you can receive, and the timing of your sessions, you owe it to yourself to look into individual therapy.

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COUPLES THERAPY

We specialize in serving couples; Our professional counselor is a level 3 Gottman Trained therapist. Skills will be taught, help build trust, commitment, friendship, positive regard, conflict management, and shared meaning.

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Core Counseling Connect provides general counseling, individual and couples therapy.

  • Specialized Therapy

    Life presents us with many challenges that we are not always equipped to deal with. These challenges are not moments that identify our weaknesses. Instead, they present opportunities for us to become stronger as a result of overcoming them.

    The therapy process is a great way to ensure that life’s challenges are not what defines us as individuals, but instead makes us stronger and more prepared to live happier and more fruitful lives. Therapy can also serve as a preventative measure to ensure that our lives remain productive and that we maintain an awareness of how stressors could be impacting ourselves and our loved ones.

    When people think about their health they often focus on their physical being. However, without the mind the body cannot follow. The therapy process is the key to living a truly healthy life. Mind, Body, and Spirit.

    Here at Core Counseling Connections we are dedicated to our clients both mental and emotional health. Core Counseling Connections is Arizona's top mental and emotional therapy, offering weekend appointments, Telehealth sessions and accepting insurance! Contact us today. Click Here!

  • Individual therapy

    You don't have to take on stressful situations, major life transitions or other mental health challenges on your own. Instead, you can seek support from the individual therapist at Core Counseling Connections. In our individual therapy sessions, we can help you work toward a better version of yourself by developing skills, coping strategies and other mental health tools that you can rely on. Some of our topics include :

         Anxiety/Stress
         Depression
         Life Transitions (I.E. Marriage, Divorce, Parenting)
         Trauma Therapy
         Couples Therapy
         Chronic Pain

    Get in touch with us today to arrange for an individual therapy session.

  • Couples therapy

    Relationships can suffer because of past traumas, communication breakdowns and other types of hurdles. One of the best ways to move past a relationship problem is by working with an experienced therapist. If you want to strengthen your connection to your partner, depend on Core Counseling Connections for couples therapy services in the state of Arizona. We specialize in serving couples: JoAnn is a level 3 Gottman trained therapist. Skills will be taught, help build trust, commitment, friendship, positive regard, conflict management and shared meaning.

    The Gottman method of couples therapy is based on research by dr.’s John and Julie Gottman, to help couples think about what makes the relationship work well, and what makes relationships fail by using their sound relationship house theory. The approach deals with couples’ conflict and it’s resolution, but also extends beyond the conflict into everyday aspects of couples interactions through building and repairing the couples friendship and love.

         • It’s an effective couples therapy focused on emotion and dysfunctional negative patterns and cycles.
         • Focuses on emotional repair and building safety, trust, bonding, love, intimacy, friendship, and positive effects.
         • It’s a behavioral couple’s therapy focused on changing interactional patterns.
         • It’s an existentially based couples therapy, both in its approach to gridlock conflict.
         • It’s cognitive couple therapy, focused on how couples think about their relationship, and how they feel about feelings.
         • It’s a narrative therapy, focused on the stories the partners tell themselves.
         • It is a psychodynamic couples therapy, based upon specific aspects of analysis of the role the
          primary family relationships play in the here and now of interactions between the couple.

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