Joanna Walsh, NCPS

Joanna Walsh is a UK-based therapist who works with people navigating trauma, loss, neurodiversity, and the experience of feeling disconnected from themselves or others. She supports those carrying the effects of C-PTSD, PTSD, abuse, depression, low self-esteem, or the aftermath of a difficult childhood, helping clients make sense of emotions such as shame, hypervigilance, betrayal, and isolation. Joanna also supports those living with grief after the loss of a relationship, job, pet, or milestone, and those adjusting to diagnoses like ADHD or autism as they explore what these mean for identity and daily life.

Her practice pays attention to the everyday impact of chronic pain, illness, and disability, and to the practical challenges of parenting, career stress, and relationship strain. Therapy is presented as a process of gently uncovering patterns, exploring difficult feelings, and identifying protective strategies that have helped in the past so clients can decide which ones to keep and which to let go.

Joanna blends empathy and warmth with a personalised way of working tailored to each client. She offers creative, art-based methods alongside talking therapy to support emotional expression when words are hard to find. Joanna holds the NCPS credential and brings both professional training and lived experience to her work. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different needs and preferences.

Approaches to Healing Online with a Trauma-Informed Focus

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes the client as the expert on their own experience. Joanna offers a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the focus is on understanding the client’s perspective, building self-awareness, and strengthening self-directed choices; this approach helps with issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and experimenting with practical ways to shift them. Joanna uses CBT techniques to address anxiety, stress, mood difficulties, and patterns that maintain distress, offering structured tools alongside exploratory work.

Trauma-Focused Therapy centres on understanding how past traumatic experiences affect current emotions, relationships, and coping strategies. Joanna works sensitively to help clients process difficult memories and develop safer ways of relating to themselves and others.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Joanna collaborates with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods over time so the therapy feels like a good fit. Registered professionals tailor interventions rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy with Joanna is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support around work, family, or mobility needs. These options provide flexibility in communication style and scheduling while allowing ongoing therapeutic work to continue from wherever the client is located within the UK.