About Joanne
Joanne Saulter uses a person-centred, integrative approach to counselling. She focuses on listening closely and working alongside each person to make sense of difficult feelings. Joanne aims to help people take small steps toward goals that matter to them, whether that means reducing worry, managing grief, or finding clearer ways to cope day to day.
She draws on therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Emotionally-Focused techniques and client-centred practice.
How Joanne works
Those methods are adapted to fit what each person needs rather than following a fixed script. Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to immediate concerns and longer-term patterns. Joanne has five years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
She has worked extensively with carers and adults on the autism spectrum, and brings that experience into the work she does online. As a practising Christian she can include faith perspectives when clients want that. She also works respectfully with people of all beliefs and backgrounds and will follow each person’s preferences about how faith is discussed.
People can expect a warm, non-judgemental space where Joanne helps them name problems and try small changes. She supports work on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, grief, ADHD and other life adjustments.
Joanne lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
Approaches that guide online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns shape close relationships and emotional responses; it can help with intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns and relationship patterns.Joanne will work with each person to decide which approach fits best. She treats this as a shared decision and adapts methods as goals and preferences become clearer. Conversations in early sessions help identify whether ACT, attachment work or other techniques will be most helpful for the individual’s situation.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments and to continue work consistently over time.
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