Joanna Markvoort-Weijters, BACP

Joanna Markvoort-Weijters is a BACP-accredited therapist practicing in the United Kingdom with 11 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, issues around self-esteem and confidence, career challenges, and autism-related concerns, drawing on a calm, collaborative approach that positions the client as the expert in their own life. Joanna emphasizes practical strengths and personal resources, helping clients explore what is already working for them while developing new strategies to manage the problems that brought them to therapy.

Fluent in English and Dutch, she offers support that blends empathy with clear, solution-focused guidance tailored to each person s circumstances and goals. Joanna encourages clients to acknowledge the courage it takes to begin therapy and treats that first step as an important achievement in itself. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aiming to create a space where people can reflect, regain perspective, and build confidence to move forward.

She holds BACP accreditation - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which reflects professional standards of practice. Joanna welcomes adults seeking help with life transitions, mood concerns, relationship matters, and a range of emotional and behavioral challenges.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Joanna draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to guide her online work. Attachment-based therapy explores patterns in close relationships and how early bonds influence current reactions - this approach can help with relationship issues, grief, abandonment concerns, and attachment difficulties. Client-centered therapy places the client s experience at the heart of the process, offering empathic listening and unconditional acceptance to support self-exploration, confidence building, and coping with life changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Joanna treats it as a collaborative decision. She reviews a client s needs, goals, and preferences and adapts methods so the work feels relevant and manageable. That collaborative stance helps clients feel involved and respected as they try different ways of working.

Online therapy with Joanna is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible access to support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and maintain continuity of care across life transitions while working with a registered professional who can tailor the pace and format to the client s needs.