Jose Pando
Compassionate, pragmatic therapy for complex life issues
About Jose
Jose Pando helps people facing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, addiction, stress, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. He also supports people dealing with parenting stress, sleeping or eating difficulties, anger, and life changes. Jose offers services in English and Portuguese and works with international clients from the United Kingdom.
His style is warm and interactive. Sessions aim to be respectful and compassionate while focusing on practical changes.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and paced to fit what they can manage in the moment. Jose draws from a mix of approaches. He uses client-centred techniques to follow what matters most to the person.
Cognitive behavioural tools help identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and try different responses. He also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time and motivational interviewing to support readiness for change. With five years of experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Jose combines reflective listening with active tools.
He helps people spot strengths and small steps that make daily life easier. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical strategies while acknowledging emotional experience. People often start by asking a few focused questions about what they hope to change.
From there Jose and the person agree a plan and review progress together. He encourages an open dialogue and adjusts the approach as needs evolve.
What Jose works with
How Jose works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online therapy and what they do
Jose often uses client-centred work to keep sessions focused on what the person finds most important. This approach involves listening closely and helping people name their goals so conversations follow their priorities.He also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours together. CBT offers practical exercises and small experiments to change patterns that keep problems going, useful for anxiety, low mood and stress.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Jose will discuss different ways of working and make that choice together with the person based on needs, goals and personal preference. The plan can be reviewed and changed as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines and needs. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a short check-in or work better with limited bandwidth, and messaging or live chat allow support that fits around busy days. These options make it easier to access therapy from different locations and at times that work for the person.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
