Joanna Cottrell
Supportive counsellor for stress and life change
About Joanna
Joanna Cottrell helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure about their next step. She works with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, career doubts and motivation problems. Joanna aims to make the first conversation straightforward and calm so people can decide if therapy feels helpful to them.
Joanna uses everyday language and a practical focus in sessions. She creates an open space for people to talk about difficult thoughts and emotions without judgement.
Background and approach
The goal is to identify what is getting in the way and to try manageable steps that can make life feel steadier. Her approach draws on client-centred work, cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused ideas. That means she listens closely, helps spot unhelpful thinking patterns, and supports setting short-term goals to build confidence and momentum.
Motivational interviewing is used when people are deciding whether to change habits or take new steps. Joanna has eight years of experience working with counselling skills and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She is based in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
People often seek Joanna's support for relationship stress, parenting strain, trauma and grief, addiction-related worries, or struggles with intimacy and body image. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on practical ways to manage symptoms and move towards clearer choices.
What Joanna works with
How Joanna works
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Sessions & fees
How Joanna’s approaches work online
Joanna uses client-centred methods that focus on the person's experience and priorities. This approach means the therapist listens first, follows what matters most to the client and adapts sessions around their concerns. It is helpful for people who want a space to be heard and to make sense of their feelings.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. CBT helps people identify patterns that contribute to anxiety or low mood and to try practical exercises that change day-to-day habits. Solution-focused therapy is used alongside CBT to set clear short-term goals and to build on small successes that feel achievable.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Joanna will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. The plan can change as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep momentum.
| 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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
