About Joanne
Joanne Rankin is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping adults navigate trauma, grief, sleep difficulties and mood challenges such as bipolar disorder. She uses clear, straightforward conversation to help people feel heard and to find practical ways forward. Joanne has eight years of professional experience and is registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).
Joanne trained at postgraduate level, holding an MSc in Psychology and a Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling alongside a BA (Hons).
Background and approach
She blends different methods so sessions match each person’s needs rather than following one fixed technique. This flexible way of working means practical skills can be taught alongside reflective conversation. Sessions tend to focus on what matters day to day.
Joanne helps people manage upsetting memories, tackle sleep problems, and cope with intense emotions linked to loss or past abuse. She also offers support for people facing workplace stress and career transition through coaching-style conversations. Joanne draws on evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness practices and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build helpful routines and shift unhelpful patterns.
Attachment-based thinking informs how she explores relationships and how early experiences shape current difficulties. Her style is calm and non-judgemental. People are invited to set the pace and focus of sessions.
Joanne aims to help people move from feeling stuck to having clearer steps to try between meetings.
How Joanne uses therapy approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to clarify goals and set small, value-led steps to try between meetings.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. In remote work Joanne gently explores relationship patterns and helps people try different responses in everyday life to improve connections and reduce loneliness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne checks in with each person about what feels useful and adapts techniques to match goals and pace. This is a collaborative process where the therapist and person decide together which methods to focus on.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be chosen when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and sleep routines while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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