Joanne Mortimer is a licensed mental health counselor, nationally board certified in Biofeedback and a senior fellow of Biofeedback Certification International Alliance. She holds a Masters Degree in Counseling from Fordham University and has trained under some of the pioneers in the field of psychophysiology.
She has been a therapist for over 20 years using cognitive-behavior strategies and biofeedback to help adults, teens and children with stress and pain disorders. She understands the impact that anxiety, depression, post -traumatic stress, chronic pain and illness have on individuals and their families and relationships as well. Her therapeutic approach provides coordination of care with others and a warm, understanding environment that helps to comfortably learn and grow.
Joanne maintains private office hours in Manhattan and Westchester. She previously provides the behavioral health services and Biofeedback for adolescents and adults at The Headache Institute, in the Neurology Department at Mt. Sinai- Roosevelt Hospital in New York City and in the Department of Neurology and Headache at The Center for Men's Health at NYU Langone. Group services include a series of chronic pain support groups through Greenwich Hospital Behavioral Health Department in Connecticut. For over 20 years, she was the Program Coordinator and part of a multi-disciplinary treatment team for the Behavioral Medicine Service at Rye Hospital, an in-patient psychiatric hospital treating adults and adolecents. As a member of the treatment team at Rye Hospital, she provided group and individual therapy as well as Biofeedback for anxiety disorders, pain management, anger management and impulse control issues.
She was interviewed about the use of Biofeedback for the treatment of migraine headaches, aired on the Today Show on NBC and on Channel 7 News and for several articles on the use of Biofeedback for various health conditions. She is published in the Journal of Child Neurology on the successful treatment of a child with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) with Biofeedback.
Joanne has provided numerous workshops and seminars on stress management for corporations, agencies and schools including the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the School of Engineering at Rutgers University. She teaches user-friendly strategies to quiet stressful thinking and regulate emotion and body systems.
She is a member of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, The Northeast Regional Biofeedback Society, The American Academy of Pain Management, The American Headache Society and The National Headache Foundation and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Biofeedback Society of New York.
