About Joanne
Joanne Lilley is a counsellor who works from a person-centred approach. She draws on 16 years of experience and holds BACP registration. Joanne focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties using straightforward, respectful conversation.
She keeps sessions practical and down to earth. Joanne listens without judgment and helps people find their own answers. She pays attention to everyday pressures such as work stress, sleep problems and parenting strains, and to longer-term concerns like grief, trauma and addiction.
Background and approach
Joanne meets people where they are and adapts to each person's needs. Sessions look at what feels stuck and what small changes might help. She supports exploration of identity, sexuality, self-esteem and motivation alongside emotional healing and personal development.
Her background includes a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and a BA (Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling, and she is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She is clear that diagnostic assessments are not part of her offering and will signpost to a GP if needed. Joanne works in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
She accepts international clients and uses a range of session formats to suit different lives and routines. The emphasis is on practical, compassionate support that helps people move forward.
Person-centred care delivered online
Joanne works from a person-centred perspective which is built around genuine listening and respect. This approach focuses on understanding each person's experience and offering empathic support so they can find their own solutions; it is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship concerns.Her practice also addresses practical life stresses like work pressure, sleep difficulties and caring responsibilities by exploring what feels most manageable for the individual. That collaborative work helps clarify priorities and small steps that can reduce day-to-day strain.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and Joanne treats this as a joint decision. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt the way she works so it fits each person's needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for more conversational work and reading non-verbal cues, phone can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, while live chat and messaging allow brief updates or support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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