Jo Ann Shoemaker is a dedicated Licensed Professional Counselor who believes in helping clients forge a deeper connection to their essential self through an integrative approach to wellness and health. She offers resources, support, and education, embodying roles as a facilitator, guide, and nurturer. Jo provides a safe, sacred space where individuals and families can explore vulnerability, potential, and limitations. Grounded in the essential self, her clients gain greater awareness of their present situations and can actively access their full potential, addressing any blocks or barriers hindering their goals. Jo specializes in parental and couples attachment, creating healthy family systems, emotionally focused therapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. As a certified sexual harm and trauma treatment counselor, she focuses on the needs of children and adolescents, drawing on many years of experience in adoption and foster care support.