About Joanne
Joanne Janvier is a counsellor with 16 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and major life changes. She supports clients dealing with addiction, grief, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Joanne also offers coaching for career and professional challenges and helps people manage compassion fatigue and caregiver strain.
Joanne works in a calm, straightforward way. She aims to create a welcoming space where people can speak honestly about how they feel.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what matters to the person and on small, practical steps they can try between sessions. Her approach draws on body-aware somatic practices alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas. She also uses client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques when helpful.
These methods are chosen to suit each person rather than using one fixed model. Joanne is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with adults in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients who can join sessions online.
Sessions are held by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. Joanne aims to guide people toward clearer choices, steadier emotions, and a stronger sense of who they are.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Joanne uses somatic-informed work to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body. This can help with trauma, anxiety and chronic stress by linking bodily sensations to feelings and choices. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, is used to help people notice difficult thoughts and focus on values-based action rather than getting stuck in worry or avoidance. Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about patterns in relationships and how early connections affect current trust and closeness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne will listen to your concerns and preferences, then collaboratively choose methods that suit your goals. She adapts the mix of body-awareness, acceptance strategies and practical thinking tools as the work evolves.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. This range of formats lets people fit therapy around work, family or mobility needs and keep continuity when life is busy. Many people find online sessions make it easier to try different ways of working while staying connected with a therapist.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English