About Joanne
Joanne (Jo) Webster is a counsellor who focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief and major life changes. She has ten years of experience and holds NCPS registration, and she aims to make the first steps into therapy feel less daunting.
Jo writes simply and speaks calmly so people can decide if she feels like the right person to talk to. Jo uses a flexible, personalised approach. She draws on client-centred work to build trust and safety, and on cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.
Background and approach
She also brings psychodynamic thinking and hypnotherapy options when those fit a person's needs. Her background includes seven years in palliative care supporting people through terminal illness and bereavement. That experience means she is familiar with end-of-life counselling, hospice-related stress and grief after sudden or traumatic loss.
She has also worked with people facing addiction, trauma, domestic violence and complex family problems. Jo will listen first, then suggest practical steps and exercises to try between sessions. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns and to how early relationships affect current struggles.
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs rather than a single method. Jo offers conversations that are down-to-earth and compassionate. She describes herself as approachable, empathic and a good listener.
If you want straightforward support for anxiety, phobias, bereavement or life change, she aims to help you find clearer ways to cope.
How Jo’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding so a person feels heard and respected; it helps with anxiety, phobias, loss and relationship difficulties by making space to talk without judgement. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jo will talk with a person about their goals and preferences and together they will try methods that fit. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time if something does not feel helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for therapy exercises and homework review. Phone sessions can be clearer when internet bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or treatment schedules while using the approaches above to address anxiety, phobias and grief.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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