Joanne (Jo) Warren, BACP

Joanne (Jo) Warren offers professional counselling with a calm, approachable manner and a focus on helping people make sense of what is happening in their lives. With 12 years of practice, she creates space for clients to explore thoughts and feelings while listening attentively and reflecting concerns from the client’s point of view. This client-led way of working can reveal options, support decisions about change, and help develop practical strategies for coping going forward.

Joanne is a qualified professional counsellor and an EMDR practitioner, and she holds accreditation with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is also a member of the EMDR Association UK and Ireland, which reflects her specialist training in EMDR approaches to trauma. Her practice supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationships, family matters, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy and self-esteem issues among other concerns.

Clients can expect an open, nonjudgmental professional who aims to understand the person in front of her and work collaboratively to find the best ways forward, whether that means short-term coping strategies or deeper therapeutic exploration.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Sessions

Joanne uses client-centered therapy to place the person’s own experience at the heart of sessions, offering empathic listening and support that helps people identify their needs and values and make choices that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is offered as a practical, skills-focused approach that helps people understand the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and develop tools to manage anxiety, mood and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Joanne is also trained in EMDR, a trauma-focused method that works with the brain’s natural processing to reduce the impact of distressing memories and related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Joanne will work with each person to assess needs, explain different methods, and agree a plan that fits the client’s goals and preferences rather than prescribing a single solution.

Online therapy with Joanne is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varying schedules and levels of comfort. These options make it easier to access therapy from home or other convenient locations and allow registered professionals to adapt pace and format to what works best for each client.