About Joanne
Joanne Willmot is a counsellor who brings nine years of experience to her work. She uses a person-centred style that is warm and down-to-earth. Joanne aims to build trust slowly and offers gentle challenge when it helps.
She encourages insight, self-compassion and practical steps forward. Joanne helps people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, low mood and addiction. She also supports those facing relationship and family concerns, grief, trauma and intimacy issues.
Background and approach
Other areas she works with include parenting strain, sleeping and eating problems, ADHD and chronic health challenges. Her approach draws on well-known methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy alongside attachment-focused and client-centred work. Sessions focus on simple tools, clearer thinking and noticing what matters most to you.
Joanne explains ideas in plain language and keeps exercises practical. People meet her for short-term coaching-style work or for longer conversations about deeper patterns. She pays attention to attachment and how past relationships shape current choices.
Conversations often include small experiments to try between sessions and short exercises to practise new ways of responding. Joanne works with individuals across the United Kingdom and with international clients in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions by mutual agreement.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match your values. It can help when anxiety, avoidance or low mood are getting in the way of the life you want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses small experiments to test and change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression and unhelpful routines.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Joanne will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is handy for shorter check-ins or when people prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving and travel while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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