Joanne Thacker
Gentle, listening counsellor for difficult moments
About Joanne
Joanne Thacker offers a calm, listening presence for people feeling stressed, anxious, depressed or overwhelmed by loss. She introduces a steady, non-judgemental way to talk through difficult experiences and to find small steps forward. Joanne uses straightforward language and keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person.
Joanne draws on approaches that pay attention to relationships and personal stories. She uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current worries.
Background and approach
She also works with narrative and psychodynamic ways of thinking to help people make sense of painful events and recurring patterns. Her interest in grief, trauma and abuse shapes how she plans sessions, with care taken for people processing loss or past harm.
Joanne also supports those dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image or isolation by listening for what feels hardest and what might change. With three years of experience she brings practical focus rather than jargon. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Joanne offers sessions from the United Kingdom and speaks English. She works online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, which can suit different routines and needs.
What Joanne works with
How Joanne works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Joanne uses attachment-informed work to look at how early relationships influence current patterns and feelings. This can help when worry, abandonment fears or trust issues repeat in adult life. She also draws on narrative therapy to help people tell and reshape the story they carry about themselves and their past, which can ease guilt, shame or the weight of traumatic memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Joanne will work together with each person to decide which ideas and techniques feel most helpful for their goals. That collaborative process means plans can change as understanding grows and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel when that helps, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins, and messaging or live chat can fit around busy days or sleepless nights. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, care duties or travel, while keeping continuity between sessions.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
