Joanne Shipp
Practical support for stress and life changes
About Joanne
Joanne Shipp offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and life changes. She aims to help people understand what is happening for them and to find clearer ways to cope. Joanne writes in plain terms and focuses on what matters to each person.
She holds a BACP accreditation and is based in the United Kingdom. Joanne works with common concerns such as relationship strain, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, self‑esteem and career worries.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, family problems, body image and chronic illness. Conversations can cover feelings of emptiness, codependency, communication breakdowns and issues around commitment or separation. Her practice draws on client‑centred, psychodynamic and solution‑focused approaches to shape sessions around each person.
That means listening closely, helping clients make sense of repeating patterns, and setting small practical goals. Joanne emphasises the relationship in therapy and keeps the focus on what the client wants to change. Sessions can be short term or ongoing, with regular reviews to check progress and adjust the plan.
Appointments are mostly in the evenings Monday to Friday, with video calls as the main option and telephone or messaging available when needed. If someone feels the fit is not right after the first conversation, Joanne will help find a more suitable referral. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions to suit their needs.
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Sessions & fees
How Joanne’s approaches work online
Client‑centred therapy focuses on what the client brings and follows each person's pace; the therapist listens without judgement and helps people find their own answers to stress, anxiety and self‑esteem concerns.Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat over time and how past experiences shape present feelings and relationships; this can help with attachment issues, grief and longstanding emotional habits.
Solution‑focused work is practical and goal oriented, helping people set small steps to change things that feel overwhelming, which suits challenges like sleep, eating habits and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be decided together. The therapist will discuss needs, goals and preferences and adapt methods as therapy progresses in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone, live chat or text‑based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual connection, phone works well if bandwidth is limited, and messaging can suit short check‑ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for evening appointments and for fitting therapy around work, family and daily 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
