About Joanne
Joanne Perkins offers calm, straightforward support for people under stress. She helps with anxiety, low mood and confidence, and with the aftermath of trauma and abuse. Her work is practical and direct, aimed at small steps you can use between sessions.
Joanne uses a client-centred way of working that starts with your priorities. She listens first, then helps set simple goals shaped around what you want to change. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviours.
How Joanne works
Solution-focused ideas help keep sessions short, practical and action-oriented when that suits you. She holds BACP accreditation, and has five years of professional experience in the UK. That experience includes helping people facing grief, relationship and communication problems, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and issues with sleep or eating.
She also supports people working through chronic illness, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Joanne adapts the conversation and the plan to your needs, and she encourages small experiments between meetings.
Many people find this mix of listening, practical steps and skills practice helps them regain control during a difficult period. Joanne works in English and provides therapy using a range of online formats. If you want clear, down-to-earth support and a plan you can try, she aims to make the first steps easier to take.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Joanne's approaches work in online therapy
Joanne combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural and solution-focused ideas to help people online. Client-centred therapy means the conversation begins with your concerns and priorities, letting you set the pace and focus. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to try between sessions. Solution-focused therapy keeps attention on achievable goals and small steps that move you toward what matters.Finding the right mix is part of the process. Joanne will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and together you will decide which approaches to use. That collaborative planning helps ensure sessions feel relevant and manageable from the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, while phone sessions can fit a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing support or quieter ways of expressing difficult thoughts. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving or other commitments.
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