About Joanne
Joanne Brooks helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and difficulties with self-esteem. She also supports those facing addiction, parenting strain, career pressure, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and challenges like ADHD and compassion fatigue. Joanne is named up front to make it easy to find her work at a glance.
She aims to create a welcoming space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgement.
How Joanne works
Conversations are straightforward and grounded. She listens closely and follows the pace each person needs. Joanne uses a client-centred approach, focusing on the person rather than a set of techniques.
That means sessions are shaped around an individual's priorities and what feels most useful to them. The emphasis is on understanding experiences and building practical ways to cope day to day. With three years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Joanne brings recent clinical practice to her work.
She keeps things simple and practical, offering clear support for people taking steps towards change. People can expect calm, patient conversation and help to map out small, manageable steps forward. Joanne explains options and helps people choose what fits their needs.
Work together focuses on clearer thinking, steadier moods, and ways to handle difficult situations more confidently.
Joanne lists one way of working on the entry:
What Joanne works with
The areas below are the ones Joanne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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
Client-centred care and online therapy options
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on helping the person lead the work. The therapist listens actively and reflects back what is said so someone can better understand their own thoughts and feelings. This approach suits issues like low self-esteem, relationship concerns, grief, and everyday stress where feeling heard matters.Joanne uses a collaborative way of deciding what will help most. She will work with the person to try different approaches and agree what feels most useful for their goals. Finding the best fit is part of the therapeutic process and she adjusts the approach as things change.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people see facial cues and have a fuller conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free check-in is needed, and text or chat can suit short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, and give flexibility in how and when to engage.
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