About Joanna
Joanna Cottrell is a UK-based counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress and low self-esteem. She supports clients with depression, career worries, addiction concerns and relationship strain. Joanna also addresses issues such as sleep and eating problems, grief, trauma and compassion fatigue.
She works in English and brings eight years of professional experience as a BACP practitioner. Joanna aims to make sessions easy to follow and practical. She creates an open, non-judgemental space where people can say what they are feeling.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on small steps and realistic goals that suit each person’s life. Joanna encourages clients to try tools between sessions and review what helps. Her approach combines client-centred listening with goal-focused methods.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot patterns of thinking and shift unhelpful habits. Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or uncertain about change. Joanna also uses solution-focused and trauma-informed ways of working when relevant.
These methods help people identify strengths and build coping strategies. The mix of approaches is chosen to match the concern being addressed and the pace the client prefers. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Joanna uses a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to availability.
How Joanna's approaches work online
Joanna often blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques to help people make practical changes. Client-centred therapy involves listening carefully and following the client's pace so they feel heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop small behavioural experiments to change them.She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who feel unsure about change. That approach focuses on drawing out a person’s own reasons for change and building motivation one step at a time. Joanna discusses options together and agrees the role each method will play in therapy so it fits the client's goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging to give flexibility. Video lets the conversation feel more like face-to-face contact, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter environment is available. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, reflection between sessions or when someone prefers not to use video. These options aim to make arranging therapy simpler around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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