Dr. Joanne Brown, Individual and Relationship Counselling

Training, qualifications & experience

• PhD: An exploration of Love and Intimacy (Research on the obstacles to romantic love and what we hope for from love and relationships), University of East London.
• MA Working with Children, Young People and Families (M7), Tavistock Clinic, London.
• PG Cert Counselling Aspects in Education, Tavistock Clinic, London.
• BA (Hons) Social Science, Nottingham Trent University.
• Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (2013), Anna Freud Centre, London (a BPC accredited course).
• CBT The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, Oxford
• WPF (BACP Accredited) Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling, Southampton
• Tavistock Relationships (London) MA in Couple Psychotherapy (ongoing)

I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I am an accredited member of the BACP. I am an accredited Dynamic Interpersonal Therapist (DIT is accredited by the British Psychoanalytic Council). I have worked for a Southampton-based charity as part of a team of counsellors and I now work as part of a team of counsellors and psychotherapists in private practice.

I have been learning and teaching about emotional life, relationships and the mind since 1988 when I began teaching as a university lecturer. My most recent university post (until 2018) was at Southampton University where I worked as a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Therapies. I supervised and taught mental health practitioners and students. I have worked closely with clinicians in the NHS (at the Tavistock Clinic in London and in Southampton) in order to more fully understand the causes of emotional and psychological distress and the possibilities for recovery and repair. I have published in the areas of emotional life, reflexivity and mental health.