About Joanna
Joanna Lum Wai is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief or big life changes. Joanna aims to treat everyone she meets with respect, sensitivity and compassion.
Her sessions are adapted to each person’s needs. Joanna uses a conversational, client-focused style that helps people talk through what is happening now. She pays attention to self-esteem, motivation and confidence as part of wider emotional work.
Background and approach
Joanna also supports people who have experienced trauma or abuse and those coping with compassion fatigue. She helps clients manage relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and career worries. ADHD, bereavement and family-related strains are within her areas of focus as well.
Her approach draws on several well-known methods, including client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas, emotionally focused techniques, EMDR and psychodynamic perspectives. In practice she mixes these to suit each person rather than using a single fixed model. Joanna speaks English and works with adults in the UK.
She tailors the pace and style of sessions so they feel practical and manageable for people taking the first steps into therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person’s lead. It helps when someone needs a safe space to sort thoughts and feelings and decide what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It uses straightforward exercises and steps to tackle anxiety, low mood, or sleep and eating problems. Emotionally-focused work helps people understand and name their emotions and improve how they connect with others. This can be useful when relationship issues, intimacy or attachment worries are central concerns. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Joanna will discuss options and help decide which techniques match the person’s goals and preferences. She adapts the plan as the work progresses so it stays relevant and practical. Online sessions can be carried out by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when writing things out helps. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, care duties or mobility needs.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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