Joanne (Jo) Webster, NCPS

Joanne (Jo) Webster is a Professionally Accredited Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, registered with the NCPS, with ten years' experience in the UK. She works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and life changes. Jo also lists codependency, family problems, relationship and communication issues among her focus areas.

She offers straightforward sessions where people can talk through what is worrying them. Jo draws on several approaches so conversations can be practical and focused. She uses Client-Centred ideas to follow what the person brings, Cognitive Behavioural tools to spot unhelpful thinking and patterns, and psychodynamic thinking to look at past influences when needed.

Jo spent seven years in palliative care supporting people with terminal illness and their family members before and after bereavement. That work informs how she supports people dealing with loss, end-of-life concerns and serious illness in the family. She has experience with sudden and traumatic bereavement as well as longer-term grieving.

Her practice also covers issues such as abandonment and attachment concerns, addiction and domestic violence, caregiver stress, guilt and shame, and separation or divorce. Sessions can include short-term practical work or deeper therapeutic exploration depending on what someone needs.

Jo works in an integrated, pluralistic way, bringing different techniques together rather than using only one model. People who prefer to try focused coping strategies as well as talking about underlying patterns often find that mix useful. To begin, she asks about what matters most to the person and agrees on the next steps together.

How Jo uses therapeutic approaches in online sessions