About Joanne
Joanne Ramshaw is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety, stress and relationship concerns. She draws on five years of professional experience to help people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to cope with loss and life changes. Joanne works in a direct and warm way and aims for practical steps people can use outside sessions.
She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice what matters to them and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and feelings of abandonment or difficulty trusting others. Joanne also uses client-centred and narrative methods to make space for each person's story and preferred way of working. This means sessions tend to be conversational, with tasks or reflections agreed together between counsellor and client.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including grief, low self-esteem, parenting strain, addictions, chronic illness and depression. Joanne pays attention to practical coping strategies for everyday life as well as exploring deeper patterns that can keep problems repeating. People can expect calm, non-judgemental support and straightforward guidance about next steps.
Joanne welcomes enquiries from anyone in the United Kingdom who wishes to explore change and build sustainable coping skills.
How therapeutic approaches shape online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values; it is often used for anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with low mood and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns and early bonds, helping people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and how to try different responses.Joanne treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences and how they respond to different ideas, and then agree on a plan together. This helps make sessions feel relevant and practical rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online therapy with Joanne uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for longer sessions and more personal work, phone calls are handy when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who find writing easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel without losing continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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