About me
Counselling can be a difficult step to take. You may be experiencing anxiety, low mood, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, loss, a major life change, or simply a sense that something no longer feels right.
I offer a warm, thoughtful and confidential space where you can take time to explore what is happening for you, without needing to arrive with everything worked out.
My approach is Person-Centred and humanistic. I believe that you are the expert in your own experience and that the therapeutic relationship is an important part of the work. Rather than following a fixed process, we can begin with what matters to you and allow our work to develop from there.
Sessions are available online throughout the UK or face-to-face in Telford, Shropshire. I offer weekly or fortnightly appointments and can work with you for a shorter or longer period, depending on what is helpful.
I work with adults from a wide range of backgrounds and circumstances. My aim is to meet you with openness, respect and without assumptions, creating space for you to explore your experiences at your own pace.
If you are considering counselling but are unsure whether it is right for you, I offer a free 30-minute introductory session. This gives us an opportunity to meet, talk about what has brought you to counselling and see whether we feel we might work well together.
Training, qualifications & experience
MSc Counselling and Psychotherapy, Keele University
Level 4 Certificate in Counselling, Staffordshire University Training included psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, humanistic and integrative approaches.
MBACP, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Person-Centred and humanistic practice, with an integrative counselling background.
I bring around 30 years of experience across education and community settings, alongside many years running my own holistic wellbeing practice, working with individuals and groups and developing and facilitating workshops and programmes focused on personal development and wellbeing.
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
Fees
£50.00 per session
When I work
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Appointments are available weekly or fortnightly. I offer some flexibility around working hours where possible, so please get in touch if you cannot find a suitable time in the availability shown.
Further information
- Depression isn't always sadness, sometimes it's not knowing why nothing feels right, often it's what's underneath, sitting too heavy to reach.
- With Anxiety, the body can feel it before the mind catches up to why, a heart that won't slow down, then it's like a conversation, running long after everyone else has left the room.
- Relationships can be repeating patterns that go back further than the relationship itself: unresolved pain, feeling unheard, love becomes resentment.
- More-than-a-label! ADHD can mean sitting with a diagnosis that has just landed, joy in finally being understood, and grief of lost opportunities, and years of not having the words for what was always there.
This is what counselling is for - because one size doesn't fit all. If you're curious about what the next steps look like, they're just below.
- Scroll to the top of the page to find two ways to get in touch.
- The first is an Intro Call, and the second is an Email link.
- The Intro Call gives you a direct link to choose a date and time on Joanna's booking calendar with slots throughout the day to suit your schedule.
- The team at Counselling Directory built this system as a quick-step way to arrange your first booking.
- The intro call and email link page both ask you to leave a name, contact details and provide a space for you to write a short message, which reads 'Start your journey here, remember it's OK to ask questions so please include any information you would like to discuss...'
- I hope this helps you to get started.
Carl Rogers put it well:
'When a person realises they have been deeply heard, their eyes moisten. I think in some real sense they are weeping for joy. It is as though they were saying "Thank goodness somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me"'.
- An adapted quote from Carl Rogers, a pioneering psychotherapist whose work shaped how we understand truly being heard.
~This is what it means to be heard~
