About Joelma
Joelma Dos Santos is a BACP-registered counsellor working in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Joelma speaks English and Portuguese and accepts international clients.
She aims to be respectful and sensitive in every conversation. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs rather than a fixed formula. That means practical conversations about what feels hard now and small steps to try between meetings.
How Joelma works
Joelma draws on existential ideas to help people reflect on meaning and personal choices. She also uses mindfulness to help reduce overwhelming thoughts and bring attention back to the present moment. Psychodynamic work is used to look at patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices.
Typical sessions begin with a clear discussion of what someone wants to change or understand. From there she offers ways to manage distress, stronger coping skills, and time to process painful experiences. Conversations can include looking at past experiences that still influence today.
She is used to helping with relationship wounds such as abandonment, attachment struggles, communication problems, divorce and separation, and issues around guilt or forgiveness. Other areas she addresses include postpartum depression, hoarding, isolation, money worries and multicultural concerns. Joelma encourages people to take the first step even when it feels difficult.
The work is collaborative: she listens, offers observations, and adjusts plans as needs shift over time.
Joelma lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Joelma works with
The areas below are the ones Joelma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Existential Therapy helps people look at life choices, meaning and personal responsibility. It encourages honest reflection about values and how to live in a way that feels more true to oneself. This can be useful when someone faces big life changes or questions their purpose.Mindfulness Therapy focuses on bringing attention to the present moment through simple practices. It helps reduce repeated worrying and ground someone when emotions feel overwhelming. This approach is often paired with practical exercises to use between sessions.
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to patterns that repeat in relationships and feelings that come from earlier experiences. It can uncover how past events influence current behaviour and help people make different choices over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, try methods together and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to find a style that fits each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face and allow visual cues during conversation. Phone sessions work well when someone prefers not to be on camera or needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who like writing to think things through or need support around a busy schedule. Across formats, registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and homework so therapy fits daily life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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