Joanne Airey
Calm, practical counselling for everyday struggles
About Joanne
Joanne Airey offers calm, straightforward support for people who want to change how they feel or how they relate to others. She aims to help with worry, low mood, difficult relationships, grief, and the stress of day-to-day life. Joanne is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation, with ten years of practice experience.
Joanne uses a client-centred approach that focuses on listening and responding to what matters to each person.
Background and approach
She also draws on solution-focused ideas to help set clear goals and practical next steps. Sessions are conversational and aimed at helping people notice small changes that add up over time. Her background includes work in hospices, independent practice, schools and universities.
That variety means she is used to meeting people at different points in life and tailoring how she works to individual needs. Joanne has substantial experience delivering sessions by phone and online. Typical topics people bring include anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, grief, addictions, ADHD and coping with life changes.
She also has additional focus in areas such as attachment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Joanne keeps sessions practical and down-to-earth. She helps people set small, achievable steps and reviews progress together.
The aim is to make therapy feel useful and relevant to everyday life.
What Joanne works with
How Joanne works
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Sessions & fees
How Joanne uses client-centred and solution-focused work online
Joanne practices client-centred therapy, which means she listens closely and follows what you bring to the session. This approach focuses on understanding your experience and building a trusting relationship so you can explore feelings at your own pace.She also uses solution-focused therapy to help identify small, practical steps and clear goals. This method is useful when people want concrete changes, such as managing anxiety, improving communication or finding ways to cope with grief and life transitions.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the early work. Joanne will collaborate with you to decide which approach feels most useful, and she adjusts the balance as your goals evolve. The process is guided by what you want to achieve and how you prefer to work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging can fit around busy days and allow for more frequent, brief contact. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
| 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
