About Me
Meet Joanna Cox
Relationship Counsellor, Transformational Practitioner and Creator of Rewrite Your Love Algorithm™
Individual and Marriage Counselling • Hypnotherapy • Coaching • Private Intensives and Retreats
Joanna Cox is a relationship counsellor and transformational practitioner with more than 18 years of experience helping individuals and couples understand and transform the unconscious patterns affecting connection, communication, self-worth and relationship success.
Her work explores a powerful question:
How does our unconscious programming influence the way we connect, communicate and behave in our relationships?
Currently pursuing advanced doctoral studies in Relationship Dynamics, Joanna’s postgraduate research focuses on the unconscious mind and its influence on relational behaviour. This includes the values, beliefs, emotional triggers, protective responses and learned patterns we bring into our closest relationships.
Joanna helps clients go beyond managing the surface-level symptoms of a relationship problem. Her work uncovers the deeper programming influencing how people attach, communicate, choose partners, respond to conflict and repeatedly recreate familiar emotional dynamics.
A Neuroscience-Informed Approach to Relationship Transformation
Joanna’s integrative, neuroscience-informed approach brings together relationship counselling, neuroplasticity, subconscious pattern work, hypnotherapy and identity transformation.
She trained directly with Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and with Tad and Adriana James. She is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP through Richard Bandler’s Society of NLP and holds Master Practitioner and Trainer credentials in NLP, Time Line Therapy®, hypnotherapy and NLP coaching.
Joanna also holds practitioner-level certification through the Neuro Change Institute, further informing her understanding of neuroplasticity, behavioural change and the relationship between conscious intention and unconscious programming.
Her work may explore:
• The values and beliefs influencing relationship choices
• Emotional triggers and protective responses
• Attachment and communication patterns
• Unresolved emotions and limiting decisions
• Subconscious beliefs affecting intimacy, trust and self-worth
• The relationship identity a person has unconsciously developed
• The patterns that determine what someone accepts, expects and recreates in love
Understanding where a pattern came from is important. Joanna’s work goes further by helping clients transform the internal programming that continues to recreate it.
Professional Experience Shaped by Lived Experience
Joanna’s ability to guide people through significant transformation is grounded in both advanced professional training and lived experience.
By age 28, she had built a multimillion-dollar telecommunications construction company employing more than 65 people across two branches. Following a $3.2 million bankruptcy and a near-death experience in 2009, she was required to rebuild not only her professional life, but also her identity, relationships and understanding of what creates meaningful, sustainable change.
These defining chapters gave Joanna a deeply personal understanding of resilience and reinvention. They continue to inform her work with entrepreneurs, professionals and couples navigating relationship breakdown, betrayal, burnout, identity shifts and major life transitions.
She understands that lasting transformation is rarely created by insight alone. People may understand exactly why they behave a certain way and still feel unable to change it. Her work helps bridge that gap between conscious understanding and unconscious transformation.
How Joanna Helps
Clients seek Joanna’s support to:
• Recognize and reprogram subconscious beliefs affecting intimacy, confidence and fulfilment
• Understand recurring patterns in attraction, attachment and partner selection
• Rebuild connection following infidelity, emotional disconnection or prolonged conflict
• Improve communication and interrupt destructive conflict cycles
• Transform emotional triggers and protective behaviours
• Align personal values with relationship and professional goals
• Rebuild identity following separation, burnout or significant life change
• Create healthier and more conscious relationships with themselves and others
Joanna works with individuals, couples, entrepreneurs and high-achieving professionals through counselling, hypnotherapy, transformational programs and private intensive experiences.
Services and Programs
Through EVOLV Transformation Group Inc., Joanna offers:
Joanna L. Cox Counselling & Consulting
Individual counselling, marriage counselling, hypnotherapy and relationship-focused transformation.
Rewrite Your Love Algorithm™
A singles intensive transformational experience for uncovering and rewriting the unconscious beliefs, values and emotional patterns influencing attraction, attachment, partner selection and relationship outcomes.
Re-Investment Retreats
Private intensives and immersive retreats for individuals and couples seeking focused, meaningful transformation.
The Matrimonial Maven
Premarital counselling, relationship preparation, wedding officiating and personalized elopements.
Training and Credentials
Joanna’s qualifications and advanced training include:
• Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Society of NLP
• Master NLP Practitioner and Trainer, American Board of NLP
• Master Time Line Therapy® Practitioner and Trainer, Time Line Therapy® Association
• Master Hypnotherapist and Trainer, American Board of Hypnotherapy
• Master NLP Coach and Trainer
• Neuro Change Practitioner, Neuro Change Institute
• Bachelor of Metaphysical Science
• Advanced postgraduate and doctoral studies in Relationship Dynamics
• Ordained non-denominational minister
Her postgraduate research examines the unconscious mind and its influence on relational behaviour, identity and lasting personal change.
Community Leadership
In addition to her counselling and transformational work, Joanna is an educator, retreat facilitator and active community volunteer.
She is a four-time Paul Harris Fellow through Rotary International and an active member of the Rotary Club of Collingwood South Georgian Bay. She also volunteers with Civil Air Search and Rescue Association and has served on the Board of Directors for the York Region Chamber of Commerce.
Joanna is also a member of the Lighthouse PROBUS Club in Collingwood.
Transformation That Goes Beneath the Surface
Joanna’s private practices in Collingwood and Sudbury, together with her online programs and private retreats, provide supportive spaces for people seeking clarity, realignment and deeper emotional connection.
Her clients do not simply learn how to manage their patterns. They learn to recognize what has been operating beneath the surface and begin creating relationships, choices and lives that reflect who they are becoming rather than what they have unconsciously repeated.
Joanna’s mission is to help people transform unconscious patterns, build conscious relationships and create lasting change in life, in love and within themselves.
Explore Joanna’s Work
Counselling and Hypnotherapy
www.joannacox.ca
Couples and Individual Retreats
www.reinvestmentretreats.com
Marriage and Premarital Services
www.matrimonialmaven.ca
EVOLV Transformation Group Inc.
www.evolvtransformation.ca
Coverage and Payment
Receipts for Joanna’s counselling services may be eligible for reimbursement under Canada Life’s Mental Health Practitioner category, depending on the client’s individual benefits plan.
Business owners and self-employed clients should consult their accountant or tax professional to determine whether eligible coaching, training or professional-development services may qualify as a business expense.
Flexible payment options may be available through Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay.