Joanna Oxford
Experienced, warm counsellor for life challenges
About Joanna
Joanna Oxford offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, parenting strain, depression and trauma. She also helps with sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career worries and coping with life changes. Joanna works with people facing intimacy or family issues, ADHD, compassion fatigue and complex transitions.
Joanna uses an approachable, warm style in sessions. She listens first and helps people put words to what feels difficult. Conversations are practical and down to earth, with space for feelings and for making small changes.
Background and approach
Her work draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods. Joanna blends acceptance and commitment ideas with attachment-focused thinking and client-centred listening. She also uses cognitive-behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused ideas when they fit the persons goals.
Joanna has 12 years' experience working in mental health services across the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. That background informs a steady and experienced approach to common and complex concerns.
Sessions can be short-term problem solving or longer-term work depending on what someone needs. Joanna encourages people to set simple, achievable steps and to review progress together. She aims to make therapy a useful, manageable part of life rather than a bigger burden.
To begin, she asks people to describe what matters most to them and what they hope to change. From there a personal plan is agreed and adjusted as work progresses.
What Joanna works with
How Joanna works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Joanna uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-based action. ACT can help when worry, low mood or avoidance get in the way of living a meaningful life.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses. This approach can be useful for people trying to understand trust, intimacy or recurring relationship patterns.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. Joanna discusses options with each person and together they decide which approaches match the person's goals, needs and preferences. That collaborative decision can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is helpful for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These flexible formats make it easier to keep regular contact and to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
