Joanna Taubeneck

Clinical Director

Joanna Taubeneck, LCPC, R-DMT, GL-CMA, E-RYT (she/her) is a licensed clinical professional counselor, registered dance/movement therapist, Somatic Experiencing practitioner (in training), certified movement analyst, and yoga teacher. She holds a bachelor's degree from New York University in Dance Performance & Choreography and a master's degree from Columbia College Chicago in Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling. Dance/Movement Therapy is a psychotherapeutic modality which emphasizes the use of the body in the healing process. As a former dancer, Joanna is passionate about movement and acknowledges that the body holds deep, intuitive wisdom and also the imprints of our many life experiences. The body remembers, on a physiological level—oftentimes much more fully than does the brain—moments of calm and also moments of overwhelm. Joanna’s intention is to create a compassionate container for exploration of how the body would like to express itself, while also inviting verbal processing of sensations, feelings, thoughts, and memories.

Joanna has been a therapist in various settings, including inpatient hospital detox, intensive outpatient treatment for addiction and co-occurring mental health diagnoses, counseling and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence, and outpatient individual therapy. Joanna is passionate about supporting the healing of trauma in its various forms, specifically complex & developmental trauma. Joanna also specializes in working with shame, grief, mood & anxiety disorders, and LGBTQIA+ identified folx. She has also received training in NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model).

Joanna believes that each of her clients innately holds the key to their own healing, yet deeply embedded societal systems, stigmatization, oppression, trauma, and general feelings of “not enough-ness” so often block our ability to discover, trust, and give voice to our authentic selves. Joanna encourages her clients to come as they are and to bring all of their intersectional identities into the therapeutic relationship so they can build capacity to be with all parts of themselves. She uses a relational, somatic, anti-oppressive lens to facilitate sessions and hopes to offer her clients a grounding space where they can turn inward in an attempt to hear what their bodies are saying. Joanna is certain that with validation, safety, choice, and an empathic witness, the body/mind has the power to heal itself.

In her spare time Joanna loves to teach and practice yoga, hang with her beagle, Theo, listen to music & make playlists, and spend quality time with the people she loves.

Joanna can be reached at joanna@headhearttherapy.com.