About Joanne
Joanne Willmot is a person-centred counsellor with nine years of experience. She works in a down-to-earth way and aims to build trust from the first session. Joanne takes a gentle tone while still encouraging challenge when it will help.
She offers support, guidance and validation for people feeling overwhelmed. Joanne helps people make sense of stressful times and painful patterns. She uses practical conversation to increase insight and awareness.
That can help with anxiety, stress, depression, relationship worries and other life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma, grief, addiction and identity concerns such as LGBT issues. Her way of working draws on several approaches. Joanne uses client-centred listening to make the person feel heard.
She brings in cognitive behavioural ideas when exploring unhelpful thoughts and behaviour. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are used to build acceptance and notice what matters to the person. Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Joanne accepts international clients and provides sessions in English. Costs vary with location and the service uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. Joanne aims to reply to an initial enquiry within 24 hours.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire then schedules sessions according to the therapist's availability. She focuses on working together to set goals and make gradual changes.
How Joanne uses therapy approaches online
Joanne uses client-centred work to prioritise the person’s experience, offering attentive listening and reflective responses that help people feel understood and seen. This approach fits many issues, from relationship worries to identity and self-esteem concerns.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT ideas can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another strand she uses, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and focus on values-led action rather than fighting every uncomfortable feeling.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanne will discuss what matters most, try methods together, and adjust plans based on what helps. Goals, preferences and everyday realities shape the work rather than a fixed method.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and distance from services.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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