Josephine Patten-Walsh
Practical support for stress, trauma and relationships
About Josephine
Josephine Patten-Walsh draws on a decade of clinical practice to help people manage stress, anxiety and the fallout from difficult life events. She is BACP accredited, and she uses that experience to create a steady, practical space for people to talk through what’s happening to them. Her approach is straightforward and hands-on.
She helps people understand strong emotions, reduce unhelpful behaviours and improve key relationships. Sessions can be short-term for a single problem or longer-term to explore patterns that keep repeating.
Background and approach
Josephine works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, anger, sleep problems and self-esteem. She also offers support around intimacy-related issues, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and bipolar difficulties. Her additional focus areas include attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
She draws from several evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Josephine favours practical tools alongside talk-based work, and she adapts methods to each person’s needs and pace. Sessions take place in the United Kingdom and are delivered in English.
Josephine is familiar with criminal justice contexts and has experience supporting those affected by traumatic events. If someone wants clear, calm guidance and practical steps to cope better, she aims to provide that support. Background and approach: Josephine’s BACP accreditation signals her adherence to professional standards.
Over ten years she has combined study and practice, researching neurodivergence and exploring PTSD and complex trauma. She encourages collaborative goal-setting and uses creative and structured interventions to help people notice small changes that add up over time.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful when anxiety, low mood or avoidance stop someone doing what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It teaches practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills for problems like panic, insomnia or anger.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) aims to deepen emotional awareness and improve close relationships by identifying patterns that create distance or conflict. It is helpful when emotional disconnection or recurring relationship pain is a key concern.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or visual focus is an issue, chat and messaging suit short check-ins, and video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps the work. Many people find online formats increase consistency and make it simpler to keep to a therapeutic plan.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
