Jo Shenton
Practical, adaptable counselling for real-life struggles
About Jo
Jo Shenton is a BACP counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship difficulties, trauma, depression and a wide range of life challenges. She works with concerns such as grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Jo also helps with ADHD, compassion fatigue and career questions.
Sessions are offered in English and to international clients. Jo uses an integrative counselling style that adapts to each person.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioural work, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused thinking and elements of dialectical behaviour and client-centred therapy. That means conversations can include exploring feelings, spotting unhelpful patterns, building practical skills and noticing values that matter to you.
Her background includes a Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling at level 6 and a Certificate in Counselling, both from Staffordshire University. Jo has six years' experience working with individuals and with people affected by addiction, anxiety and depression. She has also delivered outreach work around substance misuse and mental health recovery.
In sessions Jo aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people feel heard. She works collaboratively, helping people discover their own solutions and small steps they can try between meetings. Supervision, ongoing training and personal development are part of how she keeps her practice up to date under the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
People often come for short-term practical support or for longer work on deeper issues. Jo offers a straightforward, down-to-earth way of talking through problems and planning steps forward.
What Jo works with
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Sessions & fees
How Jo's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps towards those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and motivation struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current feelings and trust, which is helpful for intimacy and relationship concerns. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jo treats this as a collaborative process and will discuss different methods with you. Together you can try an approach, review how it feels and adjust the plan to fit your goals and preferences. Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good when visual connection helps, phone sessions suit quieter bandwidth or a shorter check-in, and messaging can fit around busy days or offer ongoing support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, family and travel schedules, while still allowing therapists to use practical exercises, reflection and skills-building across sessions.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
