About Joanna
Joanna Markvoort-Weijters is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety and relationship worries. She supports those dealing with low self-esteem, career difficulties, depression and addiction concerns. She also works with people navigating grief, parenting strain, ADHD and other life transitions.
Joanna uses a conversational, respectful style. She treats each person as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on the issues you bring.
Background and approach
She encourages small steps that feel achievable. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centred principles to follow what feels most important to each person.
Existential themes may come up when people face big questions about meaning, choice and responsibility. Joanna has 11 years of professional experience and holds BACP registration. She is based in the United Kingdom and offers work in English and Dutch.
Her background includes supporting people with autism spectrum concerns and caregiver stress alongside common mood and anxiety difficulties. People usually find the first sessions are for practical problem setting and getting a sense of what will help. Joanna works collaboratively to set goals and adjust the plan as needed.
The focus is on clear, respectful conversations that fit everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. Online sessions can help identify repeated relationship habits and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. In an online session this means the counsellor reflects concerns back and helps people find their own solutions. Existential Therapy addresses questions of meaning, choice and responsibility and can help when people face big life changes or feel stuck.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and Joanna treats it as a shared process. She will discuss what feels most relevant to your goals and adapt methods as the relationship develops. That collaborative stance helps ensure sessions stay practical and personally useful.
Online work offers practical benefits such as fitting sessions into a busy day, using phone or text for brief check-ins, and choosing video for deeper conversations. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone calls require less bandwidth, live chat can suit shorter moments, and text messaging helps keep a running thread between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while matching the format to the moment and the need.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Dutch
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