About Joseph
Joseph Mbaeru trained in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and brings six years of experience to his work. He uses straightforward listening and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. He speaks English, Igbo and Yoruba and offers sessions to clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Joseph aims to create a calm space where people feel heard and respected. He draws on a mix of approaches so sessions are shaped by each person's needs rather than a single method.
How Joseph works
This means conversations can include problem-solving, mindfulness practice, or exploring patterns that repeat in relationships. In practice he blends cognitive behavioural skills with client-centred listening and attention to attachment patterns. He also uses ideas from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy when those tools fit the issue.
Sessions often focus on small, practical steps that build coping skills and make daily life easier. Joseph has supported people through trauma and abuse, grief, addiction and intimacy-related concerns, as well as issues linked to work, self-esteem and major life changes. He also has experience with concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness, codependency and separation.
People can expect a collaborative approach that balances gentle challenge with encouragement. Joseph stays involved in continuing professional development and supervision to keep his practice current. He aims to help clients strengthen resilience and reach goals that matter to them.
Joseph lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Joseph works with
The areas below are the ones Joseph selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Igbo, Yoruba |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about, which can help with anxiety, depression and coping with change.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help people understand why they repeat certain relationship behaviours and build more supported ways of relating to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joseph will discuss different options and decide together which methods fit the client's goals and preferences. That collaborative process can involve trying techniques from more than one approach and reviewing what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, chat works for quicker check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family or travel commitments and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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