Jo Reidy, BACP

Jo Reidy is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling to manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, eating difficulties and low mood. Her work aims to make taking the first step feel less daunting and more attainable.

Jo creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can speak about difficult feelings and life events. She encourages honest conversation and focuses on what matters to each person. Sessions are practical and focused on small, workable changes as well as understanding patterns that keep problems going.

Her approach draws on several established ways of working, including attachment-based ideas about close relationships, client-centred listening, and cognitive behavioural techniques for changing thoughts and actions. She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to help with relationship and intimacy concerns and existential thinking to support people facing big life questions.

Jo has supported people with a wide range of issues beyond mood and anxiety, including grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, workplace stress and ADHD-related challenges. She also works with concerns such as body image, codependency, dissociation and attachment difficulties.

Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She works collaboratively to set goals and checks in about what is helping. People who prefer clear steps alongside reflective conversation may find her approach helpful.

How Jo’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional safety. Online sessions can be used to notice patterns in relationships and to practise new ways of connecting or setting boundaries.

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping clients find their own answers. In an online setting this usually means the counsellor reflects back what is said and supports the client to explore feelings at their own pace.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and introduces practical tools to change them. It can be used for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and many day-to-day difficulties, with homework exercises that fit into life between appointments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jo will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods seem most helpful. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people choose quieter or less visual ways of meeting if that helps them engage more comfortably.