About Jose
Jose Pando offers support for a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, stress, addictions and relationship difficulties. He also helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain and life changes. Jose speaks English and Portuguese and works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.
His style is warm and interactive. Sessions aim to be respectful and compassionate, with conversation tailored to each person’s needs.
How Jose works
He treats people as experts in their own lives and draws on their strengths to make practical changes. Jose uses a mix of approaches to suit different problems. Cognitive behavioural techniques help break unhelpful thinking and behaviour cycles.
Client-centred work focuses on what the person wants from therapy and encourages honest exploration of feelings. He also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns that repeat over time and motivational interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck. Jose has five years of experience and holds a BACP credential, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
He has supported people dealing with substance and alcohol issues, adoption and foster care concerns, neurodiversity-related challenges, gender dysphoria and first responder stress among other areas. Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, and are offered through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then appointments are scheduled according to availability.
Jose lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Jose works with
The areas below are the ones Jose selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Portuguese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Jose’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on what the person needs in the moment. The counsellor listens without judgment and helps people make sense of their feelings so they can decide what to change. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms such as anxiety or low mood. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and processing past harms in ways that reduce their ongoing impact on daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jose will discuss options with each person and agree on methods that match their goals and preferences. That shared decision-making means the plan can change as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations where visual cues help, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a less visual option is wanted. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and more flexible contact between scheduled talks. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and let people access a therapist from different locations.
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