About Joanne
Joanne Nicholson is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has four years of professional experience and focuses on stress, anxiety and relationship issues. Joanne aims to help people build confidence and find practical ways to cope with life changes.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to use in therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making small, manageable changes rather than overwhelming plans. Joanne uses a mix of talking approaches to meet different needs. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out new behaviours.
She also uses client-centred methods to create a warm, accepting space for honest conversation. When relationship issues come up, she applies Imago-informed techniques to help people talk more clearly about needs and triggers. For longer-standing patterns, Joanne will bring in psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships affect present responses.
She works with practical concerns such as parenting stress, career uncertainty, grief and adjusting to health changes. Joanne supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, chronic illness and family-of-origin difficulties. Her approach is to break issues down into steps that feel doable.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled around availability. Therapy can be delivered through video, phone, live chat or text messaging, depending on what fits the person’s life.
Approaches that suit online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what a person says. It helps people feel understood and gain clarity about their goals, which is useful for stress, low self-esteem and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches practical techniques to test negative thoughts and try different behaviours, which often helps with anxiety and depression.
Imago Relationship Therapy helps people describe needs and patterns in relationships more clearly. It offers structured dialogues to reduce blame and improve communication when tensions arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and agree a plan together based on a person’s needs, goals and preferences. That shared decision-making means the approach can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, quicker notes between sessions or when fitting therapy into a busy day. Registered and accredited professionals provide these formats, making it easier to fit therapy around work, family and treatment schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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