About Josephine
Josephine Patten-Walsh is a BACP counsellor with ten years' experience supporting adults through difficult life events. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, loss and relationship problems. Josephine offers practical, down-to-earth support aimed at making everyday life easier to cope with.
Her work often begins with understanding what matters most to the person in front of her. She listens carefully and helps name difficult feelings. From there she offers straightforward strategies to reduce overwhelm and break unhelpful patterns of behaviour.
Background and approach
Josephine uses a mix of therapies depending on the issue presented. She draws on approaches such as cognitive work to change unhelpful thoughts, acceptance-based techniques to build tolerance for strong feelings, and attachment-informed ways to look at relationship patterns. These methods are blended into a plan that fits each person.
She has experience with trauma, addictions, grief, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles and complex emotional presentations. Josephine also has a background in supporting people affected by chronic illness and caregiving stress, and has researched neurodivergence during her studies. Sessions can be short-term to manage a specific problem, or longer-term to promote deeper understanding and change.
Josephine aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can try out new ways of coping and notice small steps forward.
Approach and online sessions that adapt to your needs
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, then focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and problems that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps to change patterns that cause distress. This can help with panic, sleep problems and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and trust, and it can be helpful for intimacy-related issues and recurring relationship difficulties.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and what feels manageable. Sessions begin with clear goals and are reviewed together so adjustments can be made as progress is seen or new needs appear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when appointment times are limited, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day, live chat works for shorter check-ins and text-based messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family and other commitments while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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