About Joanne
Joanne Thacker is a counsellor who focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety. She listens without judgement and gives people room to talk about painful or confusing experiences. Joanne aims to make each session a steady, calm place to start making changes.
She works in a warm, caring way and encourages clients to speak at their own pace. Conversation is used to untangle difficult feelings like grief, depression or the effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Joanne also pays attention to relationship worries and problems with attachment or abandonment. Joanne holds a BACP accreditation, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has three years of experience in the field and has spent time supporting people impacted by domestic abuse and trauma.
Her practice takes an integrative view. That means she draws on different approaches to suit the person in front of her rather than sticking to one method. Sessions are aimed at helping people feel understood and find practical ways to cope with everyday pressures.
Joanne works with a wide range of concerns including chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, body image, isolation, and family-related problems. She also supports people dealing with separation, commitment doubts, guilt, and hoarding challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Joanne accepts international clients.
Her approach is collaborative - she helps people make sense of their story and decide what to try next.
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Joanne often uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches in her online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change how they relate to others. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and acceptance, giving people space to lead the conversation and find their own solutions.She also draws on narrative and psychodynamic ideas when helpful. Narrative work helps people separate themselves from their problems by telling and retelling their story in new ways. Psychodynamic ideas encourage gentle curiosity about repeating patterns and hidden feelings. Joanne will discuss options and decide together which approaches fit a person’s goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy around work, family life or mobility needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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