Joanna Charnas

Official Website of Licensed Therapist and Author of books

Living Well with Chronic Illness

100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Ilness

BIO

Joanna J. Charnas is a social worker with three decades of experience as a licensed mental health provider. She received her master’s degree from Boston University School of Social Work in 1988 and has earned the highest level of social work licensure in Massachusetts (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, 1991) and California (Licensed Clinical Social Worker, 2001.) She has worked in numerous service sectors, all of which placed fragile people in her care and enhanced her clinical acumen and skills. Since 1995, she has worked specifically with people with mental and physical illnesses.

Charnas has been published on SteadyHealth, in international health website, Popsugar, the San Francisco Book Review, and she blogged regularly on the Huffington Post from 2015 through 2017. Living Well with Chronic Illness (MSI Press, 2015) was her first book. Her second book is 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness (MSI Press, 2018.)

BOOKS

LIVING WELL WITH

CHRONIC ILLNESS

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100 TIPS AND TOOLS FOR MANAGING CHRONIC ILLNES

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ARTICLES

~~My Frenemy - The Dishwasher~~

YoursNews.in

~~You Will Dance: Finding Joy At An Indian Wedding~~

YoursNews.in

~~How to Have Sizzling Sex While Chronically Ill~~

Popsugar.com

~~How My Dream Came True But Then I Lost My Mind: The Psychodynamics of Being a New Author~~

The San Francisco Book Review

~~Lasting Love~~

Huffington Post

~~An Unexpected Benefit of Bad Parenting~~

Huffington Post

~~Tumor, Not So Benign~~

Huffington Post

~~Other Families~~

Huffington Post

~~Tumor, Tumor, Tumor~~

Huffington Post

~~Pear Shaped and Proud~~

Huffington Post

~~Love: Marriage, Divorce, and Suicide~~

Huffington Post

~~Dating Deception~~

Huffington Post

~~Saying Goodbye to Dad Through the Mail~~

Huffington Post

~~Letting Go of Control in India~~

Huffington Post

~~Finding Myself Again in Venice~~

Huffington Post

~~Kindness and Bliss at the Ritz~~

Huffington Post

~~Not Again: Living with Selective Perception~~

Huffington Post

~~21st Century Parenting: New, Better, More~~

Huffington Post

~~To Live Well, Do the Banana Dance~~

Huffington Post

~~Phantom Child: Mourning Motherhood~~

Huffington Post

~~Drinking in Miani~~

Huffington Post

~~A Month of Surgeries~~

Huffington Post

~~Ripple Effect~~

Huffington Post

~~Cataract Surgery: Practicing What I Preach~~

Huffington Post

~~When a Mother Dies Young~~

Huffington Post

~~How I Learned to Appreciate Nancy Reagan and Hair Spray~~

Huffington Post

~~My Father's Influence on Managing Chronic Illness: Common Sense and Saliva~~

Huffington Post

~~The Psychiatrist's Role in Treating Unseen Diseases~~

Psychiatry Advisor

~~An Education in Service Dogs~~

Huffington Post

~~Neurological Diversity: Living With a Different Kind of Mind~~

Huffington Post

~~Sex and Drugs, No Rock and Roll: Straight Talk in Group Therapy~~

Huffington Post

~~I Do It My Way: Listening to Our Body's Signals~~

Huffington Post

~~Low Blood Pressure, Stress Management, and the Arminian Dream~~

Huffington Post

~~DO IT IN A GROUP: Group Therapy as an Effective Path to Change~~

SteadyHealth.com

~~Blind To Menopause~~

Huffington Post

~~On Balding and Balance~~

Huffington Post

~~Handicapped What?~~

Huffington Post

~~Learning To Juggle: Orchestrating Your Life~~

SteadyHealth.com

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REVIEWS

~~nyctechmommy~~

Splash Magazine

~~Splash Magazine~~

Splash Magazine

~~Library Journal - 100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Illness~~

Library Journal

~~Library Journal~~

~~Psych Central~~

~~Library Thing~~

~~The US Review of Books~~

~~Nayu’s Reading Corner~~

~~The Garden Window~~

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VIDEOS

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~~Inspirational Women~~

~~Voice America, 2018~~

~~David Snape and Friends~~

~~Voice America~~

~~RadioMD~~

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Joanna Charnas

Official Website of Licensed Therapist and Author of books

Living Well with Chronic Illness

100 Tips and Tools for Managing Chronic Ilness

BIO

BOOKS

ARTICLES

REVIEWS

VIDEOS

Interv

Interviews