About Joanna
Joanna Markvoort-Weijters is a counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She supports those facing relationship problems, low self-esteem, career uncertainty and challenges with motivation. Joanna works in English and Dutch and has built a decade of practice in the United Kingdom.
She holds BACP accreditation and brings a steady, respectful presence to sessions. Joanna believes each person knows their own story and has strengths to draw on. Her sessions are a space to talk through what matters most and to find practical steps forward.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try new ways of responding. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas that look at how early relationships shape current worries. She uses a client-centred style that follows the person’s pace and priorities.
Existential ideas also appear in conversations about meaning, choice and responsibility. Over eleven years Joanna has supported people with depression, addictions, grief and sleep or eating struggles. She also helps those dealing with ADHD, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and issues around adoption or separation.
Joanna offers a calm way to explore guilt, shame, control issues and loneliness. Practical arrangements include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Therapy works through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and sessions are scheduled after completing a short matching questionnaire.
How Joanna's approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence emotional responses today. It can help people understand patterns in anxiety and relationship difficulties and build more supported ways of connecting.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. Sessions aim to create space for honest reflection, helping people find their own solutions to stress, low self-esteem or life changes.
Existential Therapy addresses meaning, choice and responsibility in life. It can be useful when people feel stuck, face major life decisions, or want to understand what matters to them now.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which ideas to try first. That collaboration helps shape practical steps and the pace of therapy.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and routines. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit short check-ins or busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it around work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Dutch
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