About Joanne
Joanne McKenzie is a Therapeutic Counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to guide conversations about stress and anxiety. She practices in the United Kingdom and works in English. Joanne holds the NCPS credential and brings four years of professional experience to her work.
She aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where people can say what is on their mind. Sessions focus on listening first, then exploring what matters most to the person.
Background and approach
Joanne encourages small, practical steps that clients can try between sessions. Her background includes helping people with relationship concerns, domestic abuse, self-esteem and LGBTQ issues. She also supports people facing depression, grief, eating concerns and major life changes.
Additional focus areas include body image, abandonment, infidelity, and feelings of isolation. Joanne draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at thoughts and patterns that keep problems going. She uses Mindfulness methods to help people notice their experience without harsh self-judgement.
Solution-Focused techniques are used when clients want clear goals and quick, practical changes. Starting therapy is treated as a collaboration. Joanne meets people where they are and adjusts the pace to suit them.
She works across video, phone, live chat and text messaging formats, so sessions can fit around work, family or other commitments.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Joanne combines person-centred work with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people understand and change thoughts and behaviours that feed anxiety. Person-centred work means she listens deeply and follows what matters most to the client, helping them feel heard. CBT offers practical tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try alternative responses in everyday life.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice their feelings and bodily sensations without judging them, which can reduce rumination and intense worry. Together these approaches give a mix of listening, practical skills and awareness work. Joanne discusses options with each person and helps decide which approach or mix of methods feels right for their situation and goals.
Online therapy with Joanne can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions suit people who prefer face-to-face conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins or for those who find typed communication easier. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, childcare or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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