About Joyce
Joyce Akpogheneta is a counsellor and BACP member with 11 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem. Joyce aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and hopeful.
Her work centres on understanding how past experiences shape present feelings. She pays attention to unprocessed trauma, anger, and patterns that repeat in relationships.
Background and approach
Joyce believes people already have strengths and resources, and she helps them notice and use those strengths in day-to-day life. Sessions usually involve listening closely and asking practical, guiding questions. Joyce draws on approaches that look at attachment patterns, the stories people tell about themselves, and short-term goal work to find small, steady changes.
She also uses motivational techniques to support commitment to new ways of coping. Many clients bring worries about parenting, family relationships, blended family dynamics, or the strain of caregiving and compassion fatigue. Joyce also works with issues linked to identity, discrimination, and cultural difference, and she addresses self-harm, dissociation and dependent personality patterns when they arise.
Her style is direct but warm. She helps clients set small steps and reviews progress together. People can expect clear practical suggestions alongside opportunities to reflect on deeper patterns and feelings.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses; online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practise different ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions and uses empathic listening and reflection to build insight and self-trust. Motivational Interviewing supports change by helping people clarify values and find their own reasons to try new coping strategies, which can be useful for anxiety, depression or patterns like self-harm.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to what matters most to the client, discuss options and try methods that fit the person's goals and pace. Expectations and steps are reviewed together so the plan can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face when that helps, phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or easier on low bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit those who prefer writing or need brief, frequent support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping the same therapeutic approaches available.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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