Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh is a counsellor registered with the NCPS and has three years' experience in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and life purpose concerns, and supports people coping with life changes, ADHD and relationship difficulties.

Joanna focuses on the effects of trauma and abuse, including complex responses such as hypervigilance, shame and difficulties trusting others. She also offers help for people adjusting to an autism or ADHD diagnosis, and for those living with chronic pain or illness who are trying to make sense of their day-to-day life.

Her sessions are straightforward. She listens to current struggles and looks at the patterns that keep those problems going. Conversations include practical strategies and reflective work so people can test new ways of responding to stress and relationships.

Joanna uses a mix of talking approaches and creative methods. When words are hard to find she draws on art-based techniques alongside Client-Centred and psychodynamic ways of working. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools are used to manage symptoms like anxiety, sleep problems and low mood.

She describes therapy as a collaborative process. Clients and Joanna work together to identify coping strategies that feel manageable and relevant. The focus is on what someone wants to change now, and on small, practical steps that can fit into everyday life.

How her approaches can work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what someone says, helping people clarify their feelings and choices. It supports issues like low self-esteem, feeling disconnected, and decisions around life purpose.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises to notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours. This approach is often used for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood because it gives concrete tools people can practise between sessions.

Psychodynamic work looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and time, helping people understand where those patterns come from and how they affect current life. This can be useful for longer-standing feelings of disconnection or relationship difficulties.

Joanna treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss which methods to try based on a client's needs, goals and preferences, and adjust the way she works as those needs change.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available online options before booking. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and help fit sessions into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing a shorter check-in during a work break. It can also allow use of worksheets, creative exercises and homework between meetings to build skills outside sessions.