Joanne (Jo) Webster
Compassionate counsellor for grief and life change
About Joanne
Joanne (Jo) Webster welcomes people who are nervous about starting therapy and who want practical support for stress, anxiety, bereavement and life changes. She is Joanne Webster and she aims to make the first step less daunting by offering a calm, approachable presence and a straightforward way of working. Jo qualified in 2015 and holds NCPS registration.
She practised in the UK and spent seven years in palliative care supporting people facing terminal illness and those grieving before and after a death.
Background and approach
That work shaped a focus on bereavement and end-of-life issues, including hospice and caregiver concerns. Jo uses a flexible, pluralistic approach so sessions are shaped around each person. She draws on client-centred ways of working to build trust and on psychodynamic ideas when looking at long-standing patterns.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help address anxious thoughts and unhelpful behaviours in a clear, step-by-step way. Her wider experience includes supporting people with family difficulties, attachment and abandonment worries, relationship breakdown, addiction and trauma. She also works with issues such as guilt, shame, communication problems and coping during major life transitions.
Sessions tend to be practical and conversational. Jo aims to listen closely, reflect what she hears and agree simple, achievable steps with each person. That can include short-term goal setting, exploring feelings about loss, or helping to break patterns that cause ongoing distress.
What Joanne works with
How Joanne works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you might notice in online sessions
Client-centred work focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgement, helping people to find their own way forward through supportive conversation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety and unhelpful behaviours. Hypnotherapy can be used to access calmer states of mind and support change in habits or responses, often alongside talking therapies.Choosing the right approach is something Jo treats as a collaboration. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and then agree a plan together. Over a few sessions she will adapt methods so they fit the person's needs rather than imposing a single style.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging suit shorter updates, reflections between sessions, or those who prefer writing to speaking. These options help people keep therapy going around work, care duties 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
