About Josephine
Josephine Ellis is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with 13 years of professional experience and registration with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She focuses on helping people who are facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain and challenges to self-esteem. She speaks English and works with clients online across borders.
Josephine sees each person as the expert on their own life. She begins by listening to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
Then she helps people map practical steps they can try between sessions. Her approach is straightforward. Sessions usually involve talking through recent events, noticing patterns, and trying out small changes.
She encourages building on strengths clients already have rather than starting from scratch. Josephine has supported people with trauma and abuse, grief, eating and body image concerns, and life changes such as separation or career shifts. She also works with issues like obsessions, compulsions, dissociation and post-traumatic stress.
For those dealing with social anxiety, seasonal mood shifts or parenting stress, she offers a steady, calm presence and practical ideas. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel more able to manage day-to-day pressures. When someone is ready to begin, Josephine asks simple questions first, then agrees a plan together.
That plan evolves as needs change, with a focus on manageable steps and clearer thinking.
Practical approaches and online care that fit your life
Josephine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns so they can reduce worry and improve mood; it is useful for anxiety, depression and daily stress. Another approach focuses on processing traumatic experiences and the ways they show up now, aiming to reduce the impact of past harm and help people regain more control over reactions and memories.Finding the right way of working is a shared process. Josephine listens to your concerns and preferences, then tries methods that match your goals. She discusses progress and shifts approaches when needed so the plan stays relevant and workable.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls let you see non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. This range makes it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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