About Joanne
Joanne Sage is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and life changes. She also supports people struggling with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping problems, career strain, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Joanne holds BACP and has around ten years' experience as a professional therapist in the United Kingdom.
Her style is warm and non-judgemental. She creates a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings and start to make sense of them.
Background and approach
Joanne draws on different treatment approaches to match what each person needs right now, rather than using a single fixed method. In sessions she focuses on building practical skills as well as exploring past experiences that continue to affect day-to-day life. That can include looking at family patterns, how trauma gets stored in the body, and ways to increase tolerance of distress.
Mindfulness practices and grounding techniques are often used to help with anxiety and mood concerns. Joanne aims to help people build better boundaries, identify strengths, and develop routines for self-care. She works with clients to reprocess difficult memories so they have less impact on current behaviour.
Progress is paced to suit each person, with attention to what feels manageable. Her background includes work across mental health charities and a independent practice. This variety informs a flexible, person-focused approach that balances talking, practical tools and reflective work.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online or by phone according to client preference.
Approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasises relationships and early life patterns to explain how current reactions and trust issues form. It helps people who notice repeated relational patterns or difficulty feeling safe with others to understand where those responses began and to try new ways of relating.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement and follows the client's pace, supporting self-discovery and confidence building for concerns like low self-esteem or life transitions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It offers techniques for anxiety, depression and coping with stress that are straightforward to practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will discuss options with the client and try methods that fit their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and plans are reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is low, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins or times when being on camera is difficult. These formats make therapy more flexible and help people fit sessions around work, childcare and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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