About Joanne
Joanne Saulter is a counsellor who uses a person-centred, integrative approach to help people feel less overwhelmed and more able to cope. She holds BACP accreditation and brings five years of practice to sessions. Joanne prioritises a warm, non-judgemental space where clients lead the pace and topics of conversation.
She listens for the practical impact of stress, anxiety, grief or past trauma and helps people identify small, realistic goals. Her ways of working draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment ideas and emotion-focused methods to make sense of difficult feelings and relationships.
Background and approach
Joanne can also include a faith perspective when a client wants that explored. Joanne has experience supporting adults and young people, and she has worked with carers and people on the autism spectrum. She aims to help people who are struggling with parenting, relationships, low mood, ADHD, eating concerns, bipolar mood changes and life transitions.
She also addresses issues such as abandonment and attachment difficulties. In practice she encourages clients to notice values, build coping skills and experiment with small behaviour changes between sessions. Sessions are collaborative rather than prescriptive, with the person’s own priorities guiding the work.
Joanne explains techniques simply and helps people choose what feels useful. Her approach suits people who want an empathetic listener alongside practical tools. People who prefer a gentle, respectful pace and an opportunity to bring faith into therapy sometimes find this helpful.
Sessions are offered in English in the United Kingdom.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Joanne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and to practise small actions that match those values. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, which can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation issues.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand why certain relationships feel difficult and to try different ways of connecting or setting boundaries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to each person’s goals and preferences. The choice of approach is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can suit a shorter check-in, while chat or messaging can fit into a busy day or be used for brief reflections between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family, work or caring responsibilities and to continue work when life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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