About Joanna
Joanna Cottrell is a UK counsellor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She works with adults facing low mood, low confidence, career worries and relationship strain. Joanna aims to make starting therapy less daunting by offering a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through immediate concerns.
She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage symptoms and build coping skills. Sessions focus on what is happening now and small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Joanna listens for patterns in thinking and behaviour and works collaboratively to set achievable goals. Joanna is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has eight years of experience using counselling skills in professional settings.
That experience has shaped a patient and measured approach to helping people gain clarity and direction. Her practice draws on a mix of client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques, motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools. These approaches are blended to suit each person rather than applied rigidly.
The emphasis is on practical steps and real-life problems, such as sleep, work stress, or coping with loss. People who choose Joanna can expect regular check-ins on progress and simple strategies to try between sessions. The aim is to increase confidence, reduce distress, and help people return to everyday routines with more control and hope.
How Joanna's approaches work online
Joanna uses client-centred listening to create a respectful space where people can speak openly about stress and anxiety. This approach focuses on understanding each person's experience and responding with empathy, helping people feel heard and less alone.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT helps by identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavioural experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Motivational interviewing is used when people feel stuck or unsure about change; it helps clarify values and build the motivation to try new strategies.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna will discuss goals and preferences, and adapt techniques over time based on what is most helpful. Sessions involve checking progress, agreeing on small tasks, and adjusting plans together.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are useful for more interactive work, phone sessions can fit into a short break, and messaging allows quick check-ins or reflective writing between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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