Josephine Lane
Compassionate, practical counselling for adults
About Josephine
Josephine Lane welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, or stuck. She introduces herself plainly and aims to make the first step into therapy less daunting. Josephine writes in a warm, respectful style and focuses on practical ways to make life easier day to day.
She works with adults facing stress, relationship challenges, grief, eating concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood issues, ADHD and a wide range of other struggles.
Background and approach
Josephine also supports people dealing with parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career uncertainty and compassion fatigue. Her approach is adaptable so sessions match what each person brings. Josephine trained as an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist and holds NCPS.
She combines person-centred methods with cognitive behavioural ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She uses simple assessment tools when helpful, such as PHQ-9 for mood and GAD-7 for anxiety. Her background includes several years working in a 24/7 emergency community mental health role for the National Health Service and experience in a mental health charity.
That mix gives her practical experience with crisis work and with longer-term emotional support. In sessions she aims to be interactive and down-to-earth. Conversations focus on what matters to the person and on small, manageable changes.
Josephine encourages people to name their goals and to try steps that fit their life and values.
What Josephine works with
How Josephine works
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Sessions & fees
How Josephine’s approaches work online
Josephine uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters. ACT supports taking small actions that match a person’s values even when emotions feel difficult. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to break down thoughts, feelings and behaviours into manageable parts and to try practical experiments that can reduce anxiety and low mood.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust the focus over time, combining ACT, CBT or person-centred listening as the work develops.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a full face-to-face style session. Phone calls can be easier on low bandwidth or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or other commitments while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
