About Jo
Jo Botten is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She works with individuals who are struggling with relationships, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. Jo writes simply and listens closely to understand what matters to each person.
She creates a calm, accepting space so people can talk about painful things without judgment. Jo has a Master of Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the University of Cambridge, and she is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
Her background includes five years providing clinical psychotherapeutic counselling and four years of therapeutic mentoring, giving a mix of short and longer term experience. In sessions Jo adopts an integrative, person-centred way of working. That means she focuses on the person in front of her and draws on different approaches to meet individual needs.
The aim is to help people spot their own strengths and build on them to manage symptoms and difficult feelings. Jo has worked with issues including panic attacks, mood difficulties, abandonment and attachment worries, body image, chronic pain and illness, caregiving stress, and communication problems.
She also has experience with self-harm and suicidal ideation and offers steady support to people facing those crises. Her manner is warm and non-judgmental. Jo encourages practical steps alongside reflection, so people can try new ways of coping between sessions.
She supports people through both short focused work and longer therapeutic journeys.
How Jo adapts evidence-based approaches online
Jo uses person-centred principles and draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety and related concerns. Person-centred work focuses on listening carefully, reflecting back what matters to the client, and helping the person feel understood. This approach supports people who need a calm space to talk through distress and make sense of strong feelings.Alongside that, Jo applies practical therapeutic techniques that help manage panic attacks and mood symptoms by teaching breathing and grounding methods, and by breaking problems into smaller steps. She also uses strategies to improve communication and attachment patterns so people can rebuild trust in relationships and feel less isolated.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Jo will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means the approach can change if something is not helping.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit counselling into busy lives. Video calls let people read facial cues and get a closer connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier when movement or visuals are difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, ongoing reflections between sessions, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy going even with work, care duties or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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