Jo Almond
Compassionate client-centred counsellor
About Jo
Jo Almond uses a client-centred way of working that puts the person's experience first. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, relationships and trauma. Jo offers clear, down-to-earth support for practical concerns like sleep, work pressure and parenting strain.
She has four years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which shows a commitment to professional standards. Jo also offers coaching for people in executive and professional roles who want clearer goals or less overwhelm.
Background and approach
She pays attention to identity and disability, and to how diagnoses can affect day-to-day life. Her approach mixes core counselling skills with mindfulness and body-aware techniques. In sessions she listens, reflects and helps people notice patterns in thoughts, feelings and bodily responses.
This helps when anxiety, grief or past abuse feels stuck in the body as well as the mind. Jo works with concerns including addiction, ADHD, intimacy and self-esteem, plus longer term stresses like chronic illness or caregiving roles. She also supports people facing separation, adoption or blended family challenges.
Conversations will be practical and paced to the person’s needs. Sessions can take the form of short coaching check-ins or longer therapeutic work. Jo encourages small, achievable steps and helps people build tools they can use between meetings.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotion and more control over everyday life.
What Jo works with
How Jo works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use online
Jo uses a client-centred approach that starts with the person's own goals and experience. This means sessions focus on listening, reflecting and helping people identify what matters to them. It is helpful for relationship worries, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.She also integrates mindfulness methods to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations in the moment. Mindfulness can reduce reactivity to stress and improve sleep, concentration and emotional balance. Somatic work brings attention to how the body holds tension and trauma, offering practical ways to release physical stress and reduce anxiety symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jo will collaborate with each person to decide whether client-centred talking, mindfulness practice or somatic techniques suit their goals. That choice can change over time as needs shift.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit support into busy lives. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and body work, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in, while chat or messaging suits brief updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy going.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
