About Joanne
Joanne Rayner is a counsellor who helps people find calm and clarity when anxiety, stress or difficult life events feel overwhelming. She works with concerns such as depression, relationship and family problems, grief, sleeping difficulties and compassion fatigue. Joanne also supports people facing trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem and career or life transitions.
Joanne uses a straightforward, person-focused style. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for their existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and conversational, aiming to make small changes that add up over time. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centred ways of working. Joanne often uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help notice and shift unhelpful thoughts.
She also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help manage stress and emotional intensity. Joanne holds BACP, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has five years of professional experience working with people facing a wide range of difficulties.
Her practice is based in the United Kingdom and sessions are offered in English. People meet Joanne online for video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. She supports those dealing with issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, chronic illness, communication problems and bereavement.
Joanne aims to help clients build coping skills and greater self-understanding.
How different approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand their ways of relating, cope with abandonment or attachment worries and build more stable connections. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person and their own goals. The counsellor offers empathy and non-judgemental listening so people can make sense of their feelings and decide what changes to try. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and then practices concrete alternatives to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Joanne will listen to your concerns, discuss your goals and try different methods together to see what feels most useful. She works collaboratively so therapy reflects your needs and preferences rather than following a single formula.
Online therapy with Joanne offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, journalling between sessions or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit support around work, caregiving and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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