Joanne Bruce, BACP

Joanne Bruce offers a warm, empowering space where adults and young people can feel seen, supported, and encouraged to overcome life’s challenges. She blends professional training with lived experience to create practical, compassionate therapy tailored to each person’s needs.

Having lived and worked in America, Switzerland, England, and Egypt, Joanne draws on a diverse cultural background alongside a professional foundation in education, sport, and counselling. As a single mother of three, she brings real-life understanding of parenting, family dynamics, and life transitions. Her own experiences in competitive sport—representing her country in athletics as a teen, later facing the identity shift that followed an injury, rowing at national level, and cycling through the Alpes—have informed a resilient, recovery-focused perspective on rebuilding and growth. Now at 51, she combines a passion for movement with a purpose-driven career supporting others.

Joanne’s formal training is in person-centred counselling, and she integrates creativity and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques into her work. She holds Foundation Degrees in Counselling Studies and in Early Childhood Studies and Practice, plus a Bachelor’s Degree in Education Studies. She also holds BACP accreditation - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists.

Clients describe her approach as warm, grounded and deeply human. She supports people with stress, anxiety, relationships, family issues, self-esteem, depression, grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, anger and emotional regulation, ADHD and neurodivergent needs, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. On the first assessment she and the client decide together which method of therapy will best meet the client’s goals.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Joanne works from a person-centred perspective that emphasises empathy, respect, and the client’s own resources. This approach focuses on listening, building trust, and supporting people to explore their values and choices, which can help with issues such as loss of direction, low self-esteem, and relationship concerns.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop practical strategies for managing anxiety, low mood, sleep difficulties, and stress. CBT offers structured tools that can be practised between sessions to support steady progress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Joanne works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the focus as therapy progresses to ensure a good match.

Online therapy with Joanne is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access consistent support from a registered professional while balancing work, family, and other commitments.