Joelma Dos Santos
Compassionate counsellor helping people navigate change
About Joelma
Joelma Dos Santos is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, and low mood. Joelma speaks English and Portuguese and supports international clients as well.
She focuses on understanding each person's story and tailoring conversations to suit their needs. Sessions are paced to fit what someone can manage, whether they want short check-ins or deeper weekly work.
Background and approach
Joelma aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Her style draws on Existential Therapy to help people find meaning and direction after difficult events. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to build attention and calm in daily life.
Psychodynamic ideas can be used to look at patterns that repeat across relationships and choices. People come for help with relationship struggles linked to attachment or jealousy, or with practical pressures like money and caregiving stress. She also supports those dealing with postpartum depression, hoarding concerns, and life changes such as separation or divorce.
When someone first reaches out, Joelma works collaboratively to set goals and decide how therapy will run. She adapts language and techniques for the individual and checks in often to make sure sessions are helpful. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability.
Therapy uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and session cost varies with location and availability.
What Joelma works with
How Joelma works
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Sessions & fees
How Joelma’s approaches work online
Existential Therapy looks at meaning and personal choice. In online sessions this helps people facing life transitions, loss, or questions about purpose to talk through values and next steps. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. These techniques can be practised during video calls or between sessions to help with anxiety and stress management. Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on patterns that repeat across relationships and decisions. Talking about past experiences can reveal how those patterns show up now and suggest different ways to respond. Choosing the right approach happens together. Joelma will discuss your goals, preferences and everyday needs, then try methods that fit. She checks in regularly to make sure the chosen way of working feels useful and adjusts as needed. Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or pacing between longer sessions. These formats make arranging appointments more flexible and can help fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
