About Joanna
Joanna Walsh is a counsellor who brings three years of practice to people dealing with anxiety, stress, loss and difficult life changes. She uses a warm, person-focused style and offers gentle guidance for those feeling disconnected or overwhelmed. Jo also works with people facing neurodiversity questions and the practical strain of chronic illness or caregiving.
Jo listens for the stories that sit behind symptoms such as low mood, panic, trouble sleeping or low self‑esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding patterns that keep problems going and on finding small, manageable ways to respond differently. She blends talking therapy with creative, art-based methods when words are hard to find. Her approach draws on client-centred work to keep the person’s priorities central.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Psychodynamic ideas help uncover how past experiences still shape present reactions. Jo offers practical help with grief, trauma responses, relationship difficulties, and adjusting to an autism or ADHD diagnosis.
She supports people coping with postpartum depression, chronic pain, or the aftermath of abuse and assault, and can address career, parenting and life-purpose questions. Sessions are offered from the United Kingdom in English using video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Joanna explains the process clearly and helps people choose ways of working that fit their life and needs.
How these approaches work online
Client‑centred therapy focuses on listening to what matters most to the person. The counsellor helps people set the pace and shape of each session, supporting personal goals and emotional expression. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical steps to change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. Both approaches can be used online to practise skills between sessions and to track small changes.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Joanna will collaborate with each person to identify goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those aims. Over a few sessions she and the client review what helps and adjust the plan together so it feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to make attendance easier around work, family or mobility needs. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging is useful for short check‑ins or people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into everyday life and to practise techniques between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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