Joanna Walsh, NCPS

Joanna Walsh is a counsellor who combines talking therapy with creative, art-based work. She welcomes people carrying trauma, loss, or the strain of long-term health issues. Joanna aims to make the first step feel easier and to offer steady support while you find your feet again.

Joanna draws on a blend of person-centred listening, psychodynamic thinking, and practical approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas. She explains feelings simply and helps people name patterns that keep them stuck. Sessions can include creative tasks when words alone do not feel enough.

Her background includes an MSc in Psychology and professional practice as a counsellor with NCPS. Joanna also speaks from lived experience and understands how trauma, neurodiversity, grief and chronic illness shape everyday life. She uses that perspective to offer practical, compassionate guidance rather than quick fixes.

People come to Joanna for many reasons - stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, sleep problems, parenting strain, career uncertainty, and relationship questions. She also works with issues such as postpartum depression, domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and the challenges faced by carers.

Her style is warm, steady and collaborative. Joanna helps clients surface protective strategies they developed long ago and decide which ones still help. The aim is to discover small changes that bring relief and slowly rebuild connection with yourself and others.

How Joanna’s approaches translate to online counselling

Joanna commonly uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas in her sessions. Client-centred work focuses on listening without judgement and helping people feel heard, which can make it easier to talk about painful experiences. Cognitive behavioural ideas look at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and offer simple, practical tools to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Joanna will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest what might help most. She’ll check in as you go and adapt methods so they fit your pace and needs rather than imposing a single way of working.

If you are considering online therapy, please confirm the current session options before booking. Many people find online work useful because it can fit around work, childcare and health limits. It can make shorter check-ins easier, reduce travel time, and allow creative tasks to be shared digitally. Joanna will talk through how sessions will run and what to expect so they suit your everyday life.