Joanna WalshNCPS

Joanna Walsh is a counsellor who works with people carrying trauma, loss, and periods of disconnection. She welcomes conversations about anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and the everyday strain of juggling parenting, career and health concerns. Joanna uses a warm, calm approach and includes creative, art-based methods when words are hard to find.

She focuses on trauma and abuse, including complex reactions that follow prolonged harm. Joanna also supports those adjusting to neurodiversity diagnoses such as ADHD and autism, and people living with chronic pain or illness. Postpartum depression, grief after many kinds of loss, and relationship challenges are part of her caseload.

Sessions aim to gently uncover the protective patterns people develop and to test which strategies still help. Joanna mixes talking with creative exercises to aid emotional expression. She encourages small, practical changes as well as deeper emotional work depending on what the person needs.

Joanna trained to a professional standard and holds an NCPS credential. She brings personal insight alongside her training and treats each person’s experience as unique. Her style is patient and collaborative, centred on helping people feel more connected to themselves and others.

She works in the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English. The practical steps to begin are straightforward and focused on finding an approach that fits the person rather than forcing one method to suit everyone.

How Joanna’s approaches shape online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the session. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to build understanding and trust, which is useful for anxiety, grief and feeling disconnected. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It uses practical exercises and gentle experiments to reduce unhelpful patterns and improve sleep, mood and day-to-day coping. Psychodynamic work explores how past experiences and relationships influence the present. It can help with repeating patterns, identity questions and deeper changes in how someone relates to others.

Finding the right approach is usually a shared process. Joanna will talk through options and tailor the work to each person’s needs and goals. She aims to combine practical steps with space for deeper reflection, and will adjust the pace as the relationship develops.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy life and making it easier to attend from different locations. Because session formats are not specified here, confirm current options before booking so you know how Joanna runs appointments. Online work can support ongoing check-ins, creative exercises and focused skills practice without needing major travel, helping therapy slot more easily into weekday routines.