About Joanne
Joanne McKenzie is a therapeutic counsellor who works from a person-centred approach. She has four years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. Joanne aims to create a calm setting where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgment.
She supports people facing stress and anxiety, relationship strain, low self‑esteem and depression. She also helps those coping with trauma, domestic abuse, grief and LGBT concerns. Her practice includes work around eating issues, parenting pressures and major life changes.
Background and approach
Joanne uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She listens first, then helps people spot patterns in thinking and behaviour. Together they try simple steps to reduce anxiety, manage anger and rebuild confidence.
Her background includes work with people dealing with abandonment, body image worries, infidelity and separation. She also addresses loneliness, career uncertainty, midlife questions and aspects of personality difficulty. This range means she can often link current problems to past experiences.
Joanne describes the therapeutic relationship as collaborative. She encourages clear goals, small experiments between sessions and regular check‑ins about progress. This keeps work focused and makes it easier to notice change over time.
How Joanne blends approaches for online counselling
Joanne uses a person‑centred approach that begins by making space for the client's experience. She listens without judgment and helps people name what they are feeling before moving on to practical steps.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT to help spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression and managing stress because it breaks problems into small, manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne will discuss goals and preferences and decide together whether to focus on person‑centred listening, CBT techniques or brief solution‑focused exercises. This is a collaborative process and can change as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video gives face‑to‑face interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check‑in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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