About Joanne
Joanne (Jo) Webster is a psychotherapeutic counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and major life changes. She is registered with the NCPS, and draws on ten years of practice in the United Kingdom. Jo wants people to feel safe and heard as they talk about difficult experiences.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She aims to build trust quickly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Jo keeps sessions focused on what the individual needs right now, rather than applying a single method to everyone. Jo uses a mix of approaches to suit different situations. She draws on client-centred ideas to follow the client's lead, cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and habits, and psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns that repeat over time.
She also includes solution-focused steps and motivational interviewing to support change when people feel stuck. A major part of Jo's work has been bereavement and loss. She spent seven years in palliative care supporting people with terminal illness and their relatives through pre- and post-bereavement stages.
That experience informs how she supports grieving parents, partners and other adults through deep loss. Jo also has experience with trauma, family and relationship issues, addiction, attachment and care-related stress. She adapts her approach to each person's situation and aims to help them find small, practical ways to cope and move forward.
Approaches that suit online sessions
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel understood and decide which issues to tackle first. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change them, which can be useful for anxiety and stress. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help address patterns like anxiety, habit difficulties or low mood when people want a different pathway to change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jo will work with each person to try methods that fit their goals and preferences. That often means combining techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made, so the person feels involved in choosing what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, care duties or medical appointments and let therapists and clients keep continuity of support without travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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