About Joanne
Joanne Sage is a counsellor with ten years of professional practice and a BACP registration. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or problems with self‑esteem. Her style is warm and non‑judgemental, focused on building trust and practical ways to cope day to day.
Joanne draws on a mix of therapeutic approaches to suit each person. She works with clients to understand patterns that come from family history and early experiences.
Background and approach
Together they look at how past events influence current feelings and behaviours. Sessions include simple, practical tools to manage distress and increase resilience. Joanne teaches mindfulness exercises to anchor attention in the present.
She also explores how difficult experiences can be stored in the body and uses gentle somatic work to help people notice and release held tension. Her work aims to strengthen personal resources and improve boundaries. Joanne helps people make sense of what has happened, increase distress tolerance, and rehearse different ways of responding to stress.
The focus is on small, steady changes that build confidence over time. Joanne has experience across charities and independent practice in the United Kingdom, supporting people with issues such as addiction, relationship and intimacy struggles, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She invites clients to take a collaborative role in planning their goals and next steps.
How Joanne combines therapy approaches online
Joanne often uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try small, practical experiments to change mood and behaviour. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and some relationship patterns.She also draws on attachment‑based work which looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in adult life. This helps when trust, abandonment, or inter‑generational patterns are important to understand. Finally, mindfulness practices are used to bring attention back to the present and reduce rumination, which can be helpful for long‑term anxiety and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne treats the process as collaborative and will discuss options with each person. Together they set goals, try methods, and adapt what they do as therapy progresses to suit the client’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility: video calls allow face to face connection, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check‑ins during a busy day. These formats make it simpler to maintain continuity of care around work, family, or mobility constraints and to try different ways of working until the best fit is found by the client and therapist.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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