Joanne Maddison, BACP

Joanne Maddison is a BACP psychotherapeutic counsellor working in the United Kingdom. She has three years of professional experience and focuses on helping people with stress, anxiety, grief and depression. Joanne draws on her healthcare background and pays close attention to practical day-to-day challenges as well as earlier life experiences.

She uses a range of talking approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions are shaped around what feels most useful, whether that means looking at current coping, family of origin patterns, or changes linked to pregnancy and motherhood. Joanne aims for straightforward conversations that lead to small, manageable steps forward.

Her practice includes support for people dealing with parenting strains, compassion fatigue, chronic illness and caregiving stress. She also works with issues such as addiction, sleep problems, self-esteem, relationship and communication difficulties, and coping with major life changes.

Joanne describes her approach as collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set practical goals and try techniques that suit their situation. That might include mindfulness exercises, talking about bodily sensations, or reflecting on personal narratives from the past.

People can expect a respectful and sensitive tone in sessions. Joanne aims to empower clients to make choices that fit their life and to build skills for managing emotional strain and difficult transitions.

How Joanne uses talking therapies online

Joanne draws on client-centred work to place the person's experience at the heart of sessions. This approach means conversations follow what matters most to the client, with the counsellor reflecting back and helping to clarify feelings and goals. It is useful for everyday stress, relationship worries and decisions about parenting.

She also uses mindfulness-based ideas to help people notice their thoughts and bodily signals. Mindfulness techniques are brief practical exercises that can help with anxiety, sleep problems and coping with chronic health issues. These practices are usually taught in short steps and repeated between sessions when useful.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will discuss options and try things that fit the client's needs, goals and preferences. That way the plan evolves from what the person finds most helpful rather than a fixed method imposed from the outset.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session formats before booking as these are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce time spent travelling, and allow a quieter check-in during a lunch break or between appointments. It can also let people practise mindfulness or somatic awareness exercises in a familiar setting while discussing how those exercises felt.