Joanna Markvoort-Weijters
Practical therapy anchored in personal strengths
About Joanna
Joanna Markvoort-Weijters helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship worries, low self-esteem and career difficulties. She also supports those dealing with depression, addictions, grief and sleep or eating concerns. Joanna works in English and Dutch and brings 11 years of practice to each conversation.
She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to the person in front of her. Joanna treats the client as the expert in their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Conversations are warm and direct, aimed at making daily life a little easier. Joanna draws on attachment-based perspectives to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centred methods that place the person’s experience at the heart of the work.
Existential ideas help when people want to reflect on meaning, choice and life transitions. Her background includes a decade of hands-on therapeutic work in the United Kingdom and a BACP registration. Joanna is experienced in helping with ADHD, compassion fatigue and the strain of caregiving, alongside issues such as abandonment, adoption and attachment concerns.
Sessions can focus on practical steps like managing anxiety day-to-day, coping with big life changes, or improving relationship habits. Joanna aims to make each session something people can carry forward into their week. She invites people to start when they feel ready and to take therapeutic change at their own pace.
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Sessions & fees
How Joanna's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape everyday patterns and feelings. Online sessions using this approach can help people spot repeated relationship habits and try new ways of connecting in their current life.Client-Centred Therapy places the person's experience at the heart of the work. In digital sessions this means the counsellor listens closely, follows the client's lead and helps them make sense of what matters most right now.
Existential Therapy focuses on questions of meaning, choice and life direction. It can be useful for people facing big changes or decisions and works well online when someone wants space to reflect and talk things through.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Joanna works together with each person to identify what fits. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt the methods used over time so sessions remain relevant and practical.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and visual cues, phone calls suit straightforward check-ins and lower bandwidth, while live chat and messaging offer shorter, flexible check-ins that can fit around work or care routines. These options make therapy easier to fit into a busy week and help people stay consistent with their work.
| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Dutch
