About Josephine
Josephine Patten-Walsh is a counsellor with ten years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She is a BACP practitioner who helps people manage stress, anxiety and difficult life events. Josephine uses a range of talking approaches to help clients understand emotions, improve relationships and reduce unhelpful behaviours.
She offers support for grief, trauma and abuse, addictive behaviours and challenges such as sleeping problems, low self-esteem and anger. Josephine also works with people facing parenting pressures, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue and the ripple effects of chronic illness.
How Josephine works
Her background includes research into neurodivergence and ongoing study of post-traumatic stress and complex trauma. That clinical interest informs work with attachment issues, abandonment and communication problems. Josephine has experience related to cancer, caregiver stress and the emotional impact of migration on later generations.
In sessions she combines practical tools with space to talk. That might mean learning simple coping skills, practising new ways to communicate, or looking at past events that keep causing distress. The aim is to find manageable steps forward and clearer ways of relating to yourself and others.
Josephine offers short-term and longer-term work depending on need. People meet her for one-off support around a particular event or for ongoing help to build understanding and change patterns that no longer serve them.
Josephine lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Josephine works with
The areas below are the ones Josephine 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
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) asks people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that fit their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with low mood, panic and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current ways of connecting and can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and repeated relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and agree on methods together. That collaborative process means the plan can change as needs become clearer during sessions.
Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging makes appointments easier to fit into a busy life. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat suits short check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it straightforward to continue work despite travel, work commitments or changing schedules, while keeping the focus on practical steps and emotional understanding.
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