Joanna Walsh
Compassionate counsellor for trauma and life transitions
About Joanna
Joanna Walsh is a counsellor with three years of professional experience. She works with people coping with trauma, loss, low self-esteem and adjustment to neurodiversity. Her approach is warm and personalised, with an emphasis on helping people feel understood and found again.
Joanna focuses on practical ways to ease daily distress. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, sleep problems and the strain of caregiving or chronic illness. She also supports those navigating life changes such as career shifts, postpartum challenges or coming to terms with an ADHD or autism diagnosis.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends client-centred listening with evidence-informed techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic ideas. This means people are given space to tell their story while also learning ways to spot and change unhelpful thinking and coping patterns. Joanna also works with trauma-focused approaches when past abuse or sexual assault have left lasting effects.
She uses creative, art-based methods alongside talking therapy for people who find words hard to access. These activities aim to help people express difficult feelings and reconnect with parts of themselves. Her style is patient and collaborative.
Joanna helps people notice small shifts that build over time. The emphasis is on practical steps and on pacing work according to each person’s needs and readiness. Sessions take place online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Joanna practices in the United Kingdom and conducts all work in English.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches to online therapy and what they do
Joanna uses client-centred therapy to prioritise the person’s experience. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and building a trusting space so people can explore feelings at their own pace. It helps when someone needs acceptance and steady support rather than quick fixes.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and to try out practical changes. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and everyday coping skills where learning new habits can make a difference.
Trauma-focused work addresses the lasting effects of abuse or overwhelming events. It involves careful, paced attention to how past experiences affect current feelings and relationships, and aims to help people feel less controlled by those memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then try methods that fit. The process is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls give face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and short live chats or text messages suit quick check-ins or days when a longer session is hard to fit in. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity of care around work, family and daily life.
| 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
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
