About Joanna
Joanna Walsh is a counsellor with three years of professional experience helping people work through trauma, loss and disconnection. She offers a compassionate, steady presence for those feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression or low self-esteem. Her style aims to be warm and practical so people can take small, doable steps forward.
Joanna focuses on trauma, abuse and grief alongside neurodiversity and adjustment after diagnosis. She also supports people facing chronic pain or illness, postpartum difficulties, and the stresses of caregiving.
How Joanna works
Practical concerns such as sleep problems, career uncertainty and parenting strain are part of her work too. Her way of working blends client-centred listening with tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic thinking. Trauma-focused methods are used when past experiences are keeping someone stuck.
Sessions may include talking, reflective exercises, or creative art-based activities when words are hard to find. Joanna aims to help people notice the survival strategies they have developed and decide which still help and which to set aside. She values collaboration and moves at a pace set by each person.
The goal is clearer understanding, manageable changes and a stronger sense of self. Sessions are offered online in English from the United Kingdom. Joanna uses a personalised approach so therapy fits the person and their life circumstances.
Joanna lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Joanna works with
The areas below are the ones Joanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Joanna's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own way forward. It is useful for building trust, increasing self-understanding and working through feelings of disconnection.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and manage low mood. It often involves small exercises between sessions to practice new ways of coping.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanna will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods in a collaborative way so therapy fits each person.r>
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work with lower bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats help people make therapy part of a busy life and give choices about how to engage.
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