Joanne Rankin
Calm, practical therapy for adults
About Joanne
Joanne Rankin offers calm, practical support for adults who are struggling with trauma, grief, sleep problems or mood instability. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure. Joanne uses familiar language and steady guidance to help people take small, useful steps forward.
She trained in psychology and counselling, including an MSc in Psychology and a Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.
Background and approach
She is registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). Over eight years she has worked with a wide range of emotional and life difficulties, and also provides coaching for work-related stress and career change. Joanne draws on several practical approaches.
She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help spot and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people focus on values and make committed steps despite painful thoughts or feelings. Attachment-based ideas are used when relationships and early experiences shape current struggles.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Joanne listens, reflects, and helps design small experiments or new routines you can try between sessions. She can support people dealing with abandonment issues, adoption and foster care questions, body image worries, chronic illness, fertility concerns, codependency, and domestic violence among other areas.
Her background blends counselling and coaching, so people often work on emotional recovery alongside practical changes for daily life. Joanne aims to help people feel more steady, make clearer choices, and manage difficult feelings more effectively.
What Joanne works with
How Joanne works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Joanne frequently uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can help with sleep problems, mood swings and anxiety. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small actions in line with those values, even when difficult feelings remain.She also brings attachment-based ideas into conversations when relationship patterns or early experiences affect current feelings. That approach looks at how past bonds shape expectations and reactions, and helps people try different ways of relating in their everyday life. Finding the right mix of approaches is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, then try methods that suit the person best, adapting as progress is made.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for more in-depth work that needs visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, short reflections between sessions, or people who find typing easier. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family life 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
