Joanne Willmot
Person-centred counsellor with practical focus
About Joanne
Joanne Willmot is a person-centred counsellor with nine years of practice in the United Kingdom. She takes a down-to-earth approach and makes space for honest conversation. Joanne aims to build trust first and will gently challenge when it helps a person move forward.
Her work focuses on everyday pressures such as stress and anxiety, low mood and relationship concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, addiction, ADHD and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment, body image, caregiver strain, chronic illness, codependency and communication problems. Joanne draws on person-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. This means she listens, reflects, and uses practical steps that a person can try between sessions.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual rather than a fixed programme. Her style is warm and straightforward. She offers guidance and validation while helping people notice patterns and make changes.
People can expect a mix of talking, reflective questions and practical tools to help with coping and decision making. Joanne works with adults on phone, video or messaging formats. She sees people in English and accepts international clients.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to availability.
What Joanne works with
How Joanne works
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Sessions & fees
Approach and online care that adapts to you
Joanne uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps towards those values. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with change. She also works in a person-centred way that prioritises understanding and empathy. This approach helps people feel heard and increases self-awareness before practical work begins.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will talk through your goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit best for your situation. This is a collaborative process and can change as your needs do, so you shape the pace and style of therapy.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face to face without travel. Phone sessions can be more convenient when bandwidth is low or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who want to use therapeutic support across the day. Therapists and registered or accredited professionals use these formats to make sessions fit around work, family and life 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
