Joanne Harratt, BACP

Joanne Harratt is a counsellor with ten years' experience supporting people through difficult times. She holds a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). Joanne offers a calm, listening space where clients can talk without being judged or told what to do.

She uses a client-led way of working. Sessions focus on what matters to the person sitting in front of her. That might mean looking at recent stresses, long-standing patterns, or how past events still affect day-to-day life.

Joanne draws on Client-Centred ideas to make clients feel heard, and on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at relationship and intimacy difficulties. She also brings psychodynamic thinking to help uncover repeated patterns and painful feelings rooted in early experience.

Her background includes voluntary work with people who have complex needs, including those affected by domestic violence and sexual abuse. Training highlights include grief work, attachment theory, and approaches for anger and intrusive thoughts.

Practical concerns such as coping with anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship problems, parenting strain, and life changes are within her stated focus. She also lists a number of related areas like body image, commitment worries, communication problems, and grief.

Joanne works in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. To begin, prospective clients are invited to use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How Joanne's approaches can work online

Joanne uses Client-Centred Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and psychodynamic ideas in her work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person brings, helping them feel understood and able to find their own solutions. EFT looks at emotional patterns in relationships and can help people address intimacy and attachment concerns by naming and working through core feelings. Psychodynamic approaches explore recurring patterns and past experiences that shape current reactions, which can help with long-standing issues such as shame or repeated relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Joanne works collaboratively with clients to figure out which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean starting with a practical focus on current problems and later looking deeper into patterns and history if that seems helpful.

If you are considering online therapy, check the current session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Many people find that remote work helps fit counselling into a busy week, keeps sessions shorter when needed, or removes travel time. A remote approach can also make it easier to manage sessions around work, childcare or other commitments, while the therapist and client work together to adapt methods to the online setting.