Joanna Oxford
Supportive counsellor for stress and relationships
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About Joanna
Joanna Oxford helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strains. She supports those coping with grief, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem and career concerns. Joanna also works with people dealing with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD and intimacy-related worries.
Joanna draws on a mix of therapeutic ideas to fit each person. She keeps sessions warm and interactive. Conversations aim to be practical and down-to-earth, focusing on small steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
She treats people with respect and avoids labelling. Her background includes over a decade in mental health work, including experience within NHS mental health services. Joanna describes herself as an integral therapist, which means she blends different techniques to suit the individual.
This flexible approach helps when one style alone does not feel right. In practice she uses methods such as cognitive-behavioural ideas alongside attachment-focused and emotionally-focused ways of working. Sessions are tailored so conversations and exercises respond to each person’s needs and goals.
Joanna values listening and making space for what matters to the client. She has extended her practice to include online contact in recent years. Joanna has worked by telephone, email and video and has provided both shorter and longer-term counselling that way.
Prospective clients are invited to start with a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to availability.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 12
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 379650
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Joanna's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Joanna works with
Everything Joanna lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joanna lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Joanna works online
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will discuss options with each person and try methods that suit their needs, goals and preferences. She aims to make decisions together so sessions feel relevant and manageable.
The biography records that Joanna has used telephone, email and video to deliver counselling. If you want online sessions, confirm which formats are currently offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling around family and work, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so people can access support from different locations.
Questions and answers
What problems does Joanna help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain, plus grief, parenting challenges, trauma and many day-to-day difficulties.
How would Joanna describe her approach?
Her style is warm and interactive and she adapts methods to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps and on talking through what matters to the client.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Joanna has 12 years of experience working in mental health, including roles within NHS mental health services earlier in her career.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP and practices from the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients and she conducts work with people outside the United Kingdom.
Which session formats does she use?
The biography notes she has worked by telephone, email and video. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What should I do to begin counselling?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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