Embark on the journey of transformation with mindful counseling and coaching combined with healing arts and education, you will maximize your capabilities, learn to empower your Self and change your life!
At the heart of my work is a passion for helping others, but my approach isn’t confined to traditional ‘talk methods’. I provide a personalized blend of counseling, coaching and education, providing tools, resources, and experiential exercises to enrich your journey.
However…while I can guide you, I cannot do the work for you. Similar to the analogy of “teaching a man to fish” I provide both education and experience, with personalized support creating a life changing opportunity to learn, develop and grow, with a new and valuable resource that you carry with you in your life. To “give a man a fish” only satisfies hunger only temporarily leaving the man to return to his prior state once again.
This is an open invitation for you to explore yourself on a deeper level; to engage, dialogue, inspire, and grow. Our work together will empower you to connect with yourself in transformative ways. Working on the foundation of mindfulness, I support the practice of suspending judgment and expectations and work to create a safe space of openness and acceptance, as your guide to personal development, healing and growth.
Joanna Gates’ passion for the healing arts is deeply rooted in her own personal journey as a childhood cancer survivor. During her recovery, she discovered the profound impact of creative expression, using art as a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery. This life-changing-and life-saving-experience became the foundation for her life’s work.
Inspired by her transformation, Joanna developed her own integrative approach, blending expressive arts, mindfulness, and therapeutic practices to support others on their path to healing. Today, through her counseling and coaching services, she is dedicated to helping individuals reclaim their inner strength, access their authentic selves, and create meaningful, lasting change in their lives.
Joanna Gates is an experienced and compassionate integrative Mental Health practitioner and educator with over 30 years of service in the helping professions. She specializes in expressive healing arts and mindfulness-based practices, with a focus on personal growth, behavioral wellness, and developmental support across all life stages.
Blending clinical insight with creative, holistic methods, Joanna offers a safe and supportive space for self-discovery, healing, and transformation. Her work empowers clients to reconnect with their inner strength, develop healthier patterns, and create meaningful, lasting change in their lives.
The Mindful Mind embodies her life’s work and mission/passion to ‘help people to help themselves’ by integrating counseling, coaching, education, expressive healing arts, and holistic practices. Joanna provides support, guidance and education ‘through the power of experience’ helping individuals to create and navigate their own paths of healing and growth, working to achieve their life goals.
She skillfully designs her therapeutic programs to answer the individual needs of her clients. She ensures an open line of communication to foster mutual trust between the clients and herself because this is the foundation upon which the integrity of her program and practice was built.
With her unique expertise in expressive healing arts, she combines art, music, movement, experiential process work, and holistic modalities to help individuals empower themselves and create positive change in their lives.
Her unique and specialized approach is grounded and her diverse background and personal experience, ensuring compassionate support for individuals seeking to change their lives.
The goal inevitably, is finding and creating balance for our Self, no matter what phase of life we are in and learning how to return to a level of homeostasis. How do we find this place, our center, our Self? Where, when, and how does the work begin? This is when and where I will provide you support in your journey to find out.
Like the analogy says “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”…
Are you ready?