About Joanna
Joanna Oxford is a counsellor with 12 years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and phobias. She supports those coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain and family issues. Joanna also works with people dealing with trauma and abuse, anger, low self-esteem, sleeping problems and ADHD related challenges.
She trained and practised within NHS mental health services before moving into longer-term therapeutic work. Joanna holds BACP accreditation, which she uses to guide professional practice.
Background and approach
Her background includes both short-term and long-term counselling delivered in person and online. Joanna uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. She draws on cognitive-behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
She uses emotionally-focused and attachment-based ideas when looking at how relationships and bonds affect wellbeing. Her manner is warm, interactive and non-judgemental. Sessions aim to be respectful, direct and practical.
Joanna seeks to build trust and to shape therapy around a person’s goals and everyday life. She offers therapy by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging as part of ongoing work. Many people use these formats to manage work, family and other commitments while keeping therapy regular and accessible.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Joanna uses cognitive-behavioural therapy in sessions to help people identify and change thought patterns and behaviours that maintain anxiety or low mood. CBT gives practical steps and short-term exercises that can reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also works with attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviour. These approaches are useful for intimacy problems, relationship strain and grieving connection losses by looking at interaction patterns and emotional responses.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna talks with each person about their goals and preferences and then adjusts the methods used. This helps tailor therapy so it feels relevant and manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when possible, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit around family and work commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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