Josephine Ellis
Calm, practical support for difficult times
About Josephine
Josephine Ellis is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. She encourages people to recognise their strengths and build on them as they work through difficult moments.
Josephine believes the person in the room knows their story best. She offers calm, steady support while helping people find practical ways to cope.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make things feel more manageable and to build confidence in handling stress and setbacks. Her work covers a wide range of issues including anxiety, grief, anger, parenting concerns and career-related stress. She also focuses on attachment difficulties, body image, eating and food-related issues, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress.
This breadth means she can help with both immediate problems and longer-standing patterns. People often come for help after a breakup, during a period of loss, or when coping mechanisms start to feel overwhelmed. Josephine pays attention to how past experiences affect present behaviour and relationships.
She uses straightforward, evidence-informed approaches to support recovery and change. Sessions are offered in English and Josephine accepts international clients. She frames therapy as a collaborative process, working with each person to set goals and try methods that fit their life and needs.
What Josephine works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based techniques translate to online therapy
Josephine draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and building coping skills. One common approach helps people identify and shift thoughts and behaviours that keep them stuck, which can ease anxiety, depression and obsessive patterns. Another approach addresses trauma by gently helping people process painful memories and reconnect with present-day safety and control.Choosing the right way of working is part of the therapy process. Josephine works collaboratively to agree what techniques to try, adapting them to a person’s needs, goals and preferences as therapy unfolds. She explains options in plain language and checks in regularly about what is helpful.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual contact helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer non-verbal communication. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when travel or scheduling would otherwise be a barrier.
| 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
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
