- Gentle yet direct
- Insight and compassion
- Practical steps
About Joanne
Joanne Willmot is a person-centred counsellor with nine years of experience. She works in a down-to-earth way and builds a trusting relationship before moving into deeper work. Joanne offers support, guidance and validation to help people take practical steps forward.
Her style is gentle but honest. She encourages challenge when it will help and moves at a pace that feels manageable. Joanne aims to increase a person's insight and awareness so they can make changes and treat themselves with more compassion.
Joanne draws on a mix of approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. She uses mindfulness and solution-focused thinking as tools when they fit the situation. These approaches are used to address issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and codependency among others.
People come to Joanne for many reasons, from relationship and intimacy issues to problems with sleep, eating or managing grief. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving strain, addiction concerns and difficulties tied to attachment or abandonment.
Sessions are offered in English and Joanne accepts international clients. Fees vary with location and there is a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a client uses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire and arranges sessions according to availability.
How Joanne uses different approaches online
Joanne combines person-centred work with techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without letting them drive every decision, and it can be useful for anxiety, low mood and codependency. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers practical ways to test and change them, which helps with worries, sleep and unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne will talk with each person about what feels helpful and adapt methods to match their goals and preferences. She treats the process as a collaboration rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by removing travel time or allowing shorter check-ins during a workday. The biography lists phone, video calling and instant messaging as possible methods, so confirm which formats are currently offered before booking. Online sessions let people use techniques such as mindfulness exercises or behavioural experiments in their everyday environment, and Joanne helps apply these tools in practical ways that suit each person's routine.
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Experience
9+ years
Credentials
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Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does Joanne help with?
She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and codependency among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Joanne uses a person-centred, down-to-earth approach that is gentle but willing to challenge when needed.
What experience does she bring?
She has nine years of counselling experience helping people build awareness and make positive changes.
What credentials and location are listed?
Joanne holds BACP and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
The biography mentions phone, video calling and instant messaging as possible session methods; confirm current options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start working with Joanne?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to her availability.
Profile details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. Credential and registration rules differ between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.