About me
Hello my name is Jo-anna l am an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, providing individual, couples and relationship counselling.
It takes courage to come for counselling, well done for taking the first step to finding a therapist. It's important to find someone you think is a good fit to work with. Someone you think you can trust who makes you feel seen, heard and understood. Building an enjoyable therapeutic relationship provides a positive experience and increases the efficacy of the therapeutic outcomes you want to achieve. The therapeutic relationship itself can bring healing.
I provide a safe non-judgmental confidential space where client autonomy and mutual respect are key.
l help and encourage clients to explore and discover the changes they want to make within themselves, in their lives and in their relationships and how they understand and relate to themselves.
There may be a specific situation you want to explore or you may have set goals and desired outcomes from the therapy which l can facilitate.
You may want to explore your family or your relational history to gain a better understanding of yourself.
Does part of you or your life feel stuck or blocked. Has life thrown you a curve ball and you're not sure what to do. Maybe there's an unresolved trauma within, or you can't quite put your finger on what needs to change but something just doesn't feel right inside.
Have you experienced a bereavement or loss of a job or your health. There are many circumstances and events in life we need support with.
Maybe you're not sure who you are or what you want from life or which direction to go. Gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves by learning how to understand and regulate our emotions or developing assertiveness or communication skills increases self woth and self-esteem which leads to confident living.
One size doesn't fit all. l consider each clients personality, capacity, needs, goals and ideas to create a blended working model from several schools of therapy, which I am both qualified in and have extensive years of experience practicing.
Some of those modalities are:
Transactional Analasis / Person Centred Therapy / Systemic Family Therapy / CBT / DBT / Solution Focused Therapy / Psychoanalytical Therapy / Gottman method / Gestalt therapy.
I am an open and down to earth authentic person with an intrinsic desire to help others.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a fully qualified Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor working with individual clients and couples.
I am an accredited member of the BACP and a seasoned therapist.
l attend regular and ongoing professional developmental training in order to provide a continually evolving and updated practice.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individual sessions last up to 50 minutes the fee is £50.
The first couples therapy appointment lasts up to 1 HR 15 minutes. Subsequent sessions last 50 minutes the fee for both is £80.
Longer appointments are available pro rata for individual, relationship and couples therapy.
