Joanne Willmot, BACP

Joanne Willmot is a person-centred counsellor with nine years of experience. She meets people in a down-to-earth way and builds the relationship before expecting change. Joanne uses a gentle style and will offer challenge when it feels helpful. She describes her aim as increasing insight and self-compassion so people can make practical changes.

Joanne helps people talk through stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, career uncertainty and the strain of caregiving. Additional areas she works with include ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, chronic illness and body-image concerns.

Joanne draws on several helpful approaches in her work. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live around difficult thoughts and feelings, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at unhelpful thinking patterns. Her person-centred background keeps the focus on listening and responding to each person’s experience.

Her practice is practical and collaborative. Sessions aim to increase awareness, build coping skills and set small, achievable goals. Joanne invites people to notice where self-compassion can replace harsh self-criticism, and to try out new ways of relating to themselves and others.

Joanne works with people in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. She communicates in English and holds BACP registration, which she lists among her professional details.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Joanne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client‑Centred Therapy in her practice. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being led by them, and supports choosing actions that match personal values. Client‑centred work focuses on listening, empathy and building a trusting relationship so people can explore what matters to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and will adapt methods together. This is a collaborative process where strategies are tested and adjusted as progress is noticed.

The biography lists phone, video calling and instant messaging among possible session ways, so please confirm which formats are currently offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling around work or family routines, allow brief check-ins between commitments, and let people choose quieter surroundings or lower-bandwidth options when needed.