JoAnna Sendejo, Psychologist
JoAnna Sendejo helps children, teens, and young adults in Utah build emotional resilience, strengthen family relationships, and find healing from life’s challenges. She provides compassionate and evidence-based care for individuals and families navigating anxiety, ADHD, depression, trauma, and behavioral or developmental concerns. With a warm and collaborative approach, JoAnna creates a safe space where clients can explore their emotions, understand the roots of their struggles, and learn practical tools for growth and self-acceptance.
JoAnna specializes in working with children and adolescents experiencing behavioral and emotional regulation challenges, including those with neurodevelopmental differences such as Autism Spectrum Disorders or developmental disabilities. She also supports families in improving communication and connection, helping caregivers better understand and respond to their child’s emotional and developmental needs. Her work emphasizes the importance of early intervention and family involvement in fostering long-term emotional wellness.
JoAnna has a deep passion for early childhood mental health and perinatal care. She offers support to parents and caregivers adjusting to pregnancy, postpartum transitions, and the complex emotions that can accompany new parenthood. Her expertise in early childhood neurodevelopmental assessment and psychological testing allows her to provide insight into learning, attention, and emotional challenges, helping families gain clarity and access the right resources for support.
Her therapeutic style integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and family therapy techniques, grounded in a trauma-informed and culturally sensitive framework. She is also fluent in Spanish and provides bilingual services to ensure inclusivity and accessibility for diverse families.
Outside of her work at LifeStance Health, JoAnna enjoys playing or listening to music, exploring new hiking trails, trying new foods, and spending time with her partner and two cats.
Spanish Biography:
JoAnna Sendejo apoya a niñes, adolescentes y adultos jóvenes en Utah a desarrollar resiliencia emocional, fortalecer las relaciones familiares y encontrar sanación frente a los desafíos de la vida. Brinda atención compasiva y basada en la evidencia a personas y familias que enfrentan ansiedad, falta de atención o hyperactividad, depresión, trauma y dificultades conductuales o del desarrollo. Con un enfoque colaborativo, JoAnna crea un espacio seguro donde los clientes pueden explorar sus emociones, comprender las raíces de sus dificultades y aprender herramientas prácticas para el crecimiento y la autocompasión.
JoAnna se especializa en trabajar con niños y adolescentes que presentan desafíos conductuales y de regulación emocional, incluyendo aquellos con diferencias en el neurodesarrollo como los Trastornos del Espectro Autista o discapacidades del desarrollo. También apoya a las familias en mejorar la comunicación y la conexión, ayudando a los cuidadores a comprender mejor y responder de manera más efectiva a las necesidades emocionales y del desarrollo de sus hijes. Su trabajo enfatiza la importancia de la intervención temprana y la participación familiar para fomentar el bienestar emocional a largo plazo.
JoAnna tiene una pasión por la salud mental en la primera infancia y el cuidado perinatal. Ofrece apoyo a cuidadores que se están adaptando al embarazo, a las transiciones del posparto y a las emociones complejas que pueden acompañar la llegada de un nuevo hije. Su experiencia en evaluación del neurodesarrollo en la primera infancia y en pruebas psicológicas le permite brindar información valiosa sobre desafíos de aprendizaje, atención y regulación emocional, ayudando a las familias a obtener claridad y acceder a los recursos adecuados.
Su estilo terapéutico usa técnicas de terapia familiar, todo dentro de un enfoque informado por el trauma y culturalmente sensible. También es bilingüe en español e inglés y ofrece servicios en ambos idiomas para garantizar la inclusión y el acceso de familias diversas.
Fuera de su trabajo en LifeStance Health, JoAnna disfruta tocar o escuchar música, acampar, probar nuevos alimentos y pasar tiempo con su pareja y sus dos gatos.
Provider Introduction
Types of Care & Ages Served
- Individual Therapy: Ages 0-26
- Psychological & Neuropsychological Testing: Ages 0-40
Areas of Focus
Individual Therapy
Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.
- Immigration/cultural status
- Sexual trauma
- Trauma & PTSD
- ADHD
- Adoption & foster care
- Anger issues
- Anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Attention & focus
- Autism: generally independent
- Autism: requires some assistance
- Autism: requires substantial support
- Caregiving
- Childhood behavioral issues
- Depression/feeling down
- Domestic violence & abuse
- Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
- Early adulthood: Starting college or career
- Emotional abuse
- Ethnic identity
- Family conflict
- Focus, concentration & memory
- Gender identity
- General relationship issues
- Grief & loss
- Intellectual challenges: generally independent
- Intellectual challenges: requires some assistance
- Intellectual challenges: requires substantial support
- Learning challenges
- LGBTQ+
- Marital stress or divorce
- Menopause & perimenopause
- Other women's health concerns
- Panic attacks
- Parenting
- PMS & PMDD
- Premarital counseling
- Racial identity
- School avoidance
- School behavioral issues
- Self-esteem
- Social injustice
- Social skills & communication
- Stress management
Psychological & Neuropsychological Testing
Psychological testing and evaluations are used to collect insights into someone’s behavior and thoughts.
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Deseret Mutual Benefit Admin(DMBA)
- Devoted Health Plan
- EMI Health
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare
- Motiv / Health Utah Management
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Public Employees Health Program
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield (L)
- Sana Benefits
- Select Health
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Tricare West (TriWest) (L)
- University of Utah Health Plans
- WISE Provider Networks
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Education
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The University of Texas at Arlington
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Pacific University
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University of Texas at Austin
Frequently Asked
Questions
Please call us at 801-639-9146 to schedule an appointment with JoAnna Sendejo.
JoAnna Sendejo generally accepts new patients but there could be a waitlist.
Please call 801-639-9146 to find out JoAnna Sendejo's schedule and availability.
LifeStance Health providers accept most commercial insurance plans that are offered in the states where we offer services, including telehealth. Please see the following list of insurances accepted by JoAnna Sendejo:
- Aetna
- Carelon (Beacon)
- Centivo
- Claritev (MultiPlan PHCS)
- Deseret Mutual Benefit Admin(DMBA)
- Devoted Health Plan
- EMI Health
- Evernorth (Cigna)
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- MediNcrease Health Plans (MHP)
- Medicare
- Molina Healthcare
- Motiv / Health Utah Management
- Northwell Direct
- Optum (UnitedHealthcare)
- Partners Direct Health
- Provider Network of America (PNOA)
- Public Employees Health Program
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Regence BlueCross BlueShield (L)
- Sana Benefits
- Select Health
- TELUS Health (BHS)
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Tricare West (TriWest) (L)
- University of Utah Health Plans
- WISE Provider Networks
If you don't see your insurance listed, please contact us at 801-639-9146 to see how we can help.
JoAnna Sendejo is a Psychologist and cannot prescribe medication. However, most LifeStance offices have a Psychiatrist or APN on staff who can prescribe medication if needed.
JoAnna Sendejo works at:
Yes, JoAnna Sendejo does offer online telehealth visits.
Yes, JoAnna Sendejo is currently offering in-office visits at the following location:
- English
- Spanish