About Joanne
Joanne Airey is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who feel stuck, anxious, low or overwhelmed. She supports people wanting clearer communication, fewer worries, stronger self-worth and better control over daily life. Joanne brings a calm, practical manner to sessions and aims to make talking about difficult topics feel manageable.
Joanne has practised for 10 years across hospices, independent practice, schools and universities. She is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, often written as BACP.
Background and approach
Her background includes a lot of online and phone work, so she is comfortable helping people remotely. Her main way of working is client-centred therapy, which focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. She also uses solution-focused ideas to help people set clear, achievable steps when that feels useful.
These approaches are used to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship difficulties among other concerns. Joanne has experience with a wide range of areas such as parenting strains, sleep problems, addiction-related issues, ADHD and coping with life changes. She also has supported people facing chronic illness, bereavement and attachment-related worries.
Sessions aim to be straightforward, with practical suggestions and chances to reflect. People who choose Joanne can expect steady, respectful support and practical options to try between sessions. She encourages clients to shape the work so it fits their goals and day-to-day life.
How Joanne uses client-centred and solution-focused work online
Joanne uses client-centred therapy to create a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person sets the pace. This approach focuses on listening, understanding how someone feels, and helping them gain greater self-awareness and confidence. It is helpful for anxiety, low mood, grief and issues linked to self-esteem.She also draws on solution-focused therapy when people want practical change quickly. That approach breaks goals into small, doable steps and looks for what is already working. It suits situations such as coping with stress, improving communication or setting routines for sleep and daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will discuss goals, preferences and the challenges someone faces, and then agree on methods to try. The process is collaborative and can shift over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits people who prefer writing or need asynchronous contact. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and travel commitments and to continue therapy when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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