About Joanne
Joanne Copley is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with 12 years of professional experience. She holds BACP accreditation, which appears on her profile as BACP. Joanne aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting by offering steady support and practical help for people facing stress and anxiety.
Joanne creates a calm, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about openly. She encourages people to notice their own strengths and to reflect on what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions can be shaped by each person's preferences and pace. Her work addresses relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and depression. She also pays attention to attachment concerns, abandonment, communication problems and commitment worries.
Other areas Joanne covers include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and the effects of cancer on emotional life. Joanne uses a mix of approaches so she can tailor sessions to the person in front of her. That can range from a gentle, person-centred style to more structured cognitive and behavioural techniques that build coping skills.
She and the client decide together which way of working will suit best. Her aim is practical change alongside emotional understanding. Joanne helps people develop clearer thinking, steadier routines and healthier ways of handling overwhelming feelings.
She offers straightforward guidance while encouraging personal insight.
How Joanne adapts therapeutic approaches online
Joanne commonly blends person-centred work with cognitive behavioural ideas to help people manage worry and change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on active listening, helping people name feelings and build self-awareness in their own time. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises and behavioural experiments to change stress responses and reduce anxious thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Joanne will talk through your goals and preferences and together you will try methods that fit your needs. This is a collaborative process, so adjustments are made as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or messaging suits short check-ins, daily support or people who find writing easier than speaking. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to slot into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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