Joanne (Jo) Webster, NCPS

NCPS (National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society). 10 years' experience. Joanne (Jo) Webster works with stress, anxiety, family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and coping with life changes.

Jo is a psychotherapeutic counsellor registered with the NCPS and qualified since 2015. She is based and trained in the United Kingdom. Her practice is aimed at people who need a direct, practical way to talk things through and manage difficult feelings.

Her approach is pluralistic and integrated. That means Jo uses a mix of methods rather than one fixed model. She draws on client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas, psychodynamic thinking, motivational interviewing, hypnotherapy and solution-focused techniques when these fit the person's needs.

Jo has extensive experience in bereavement and loss. She spent seven years in palliative care supporting patients with terminal illness and the family members around them. This included working with people after the sudden or traumatic death of a baby, child or young person, and supporting those grieving the loss of a partner, parent or close relative.

Across her ten years of practice she has also supported people with depression, PTSD, attachment and relationship difficulties, addiction and abuse, caregiving stress, codependency, control issues and communication problems. She works with individuals, couples and groups and with adults, children and young people where appropriate.

Jo asks new clients to consider whether her way of working feels like a good match. If it does, the next step is to follow the counselling service's sign-up process and arrange an initial meeting to discuss aims and practical arrangements.

How Jo’s approaches translate to remote counselling