Joanne Maddison
Compassionate counsellor for life changes
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About Joanne
Joanne Maddison is a psychotherapeutic counsellor who practices from a client-focused perspective. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings three years of professional experience to sessions. Joanne aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where people can talk through stress, anxiety, grief and depression.
She draws on approaches that explore both past experience and current daily life. That helps when someone wants to understand repeating patterns or feels stuck after a major life change.
Background and approach
Joanne has a healthcare background and pays particular attention to the adjustments that can come with pregnancy and becoming a parent. In sessions she tailors the conversation and plan to what each person needs. This might mean working on coping strategies for anxiety, talking through grief, or addressing issues around work and career.
The aim is practical steps that fit into everyday life and build toward better wellbeing. Joanne also supports people dealing with relationship and family concerns, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her wider interests include adoption and foster care, attachment and family of origin issues, chronic illness and caregiving stress.
She notices how health and life events shape emotions and behaviour. Work with Joanne usually focuses on helping people find clearer ways to cope and make choices that suit them. She invites people to be curious about their patterns and to try small changes.
The process is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 3
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 413163
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Client-Centered Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Joanne's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Joanne works with
Everything Joanne lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Approaches Joanne lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Joanne works online
Psychodynamic and Jungian ideas look at how past events and inner patterns affect current feelings and choices. This approach can help when someone notices repeating relationship or family of origin issues and wants to understand underlying themes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanne will discuss different ways of working and choose methods together based on a person’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps decide what to focus on and how fast to move.
For practicalities, please confirm current session options before booking as the biography does not list specific formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow check-ins from wherever someone is based. It also permits shorter or more focused sessions when energy or bandwidth is limited. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, mindfulness practices and somatic tasks so they work well at a distance while matching each person’s needs and rhythm.
Questions and answers
What kinds of concerns can Joanne help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and related concerns such as anger, addictions and low self-esteem. The list also includes parenting strain, career difficulties, sleep problems and compassion fatigue.
What is Joanne's therapeutic style?
Her work blends client-centred listening with psychodynamic and Jungian ideas and mindfulness and somatic elements. Sessions aim to understand both past patterns and present experience to create practical ways forward.
How much professional experience does she have?
Joanne has three years of professional experience working as a psychotherapeutic counsellor in the United Kingdom.
What credentials and location apply?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and works in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can clients from other countries work with Joanne?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Joanne?
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