Joanne Leadbetter, BACP

Joanne Leadbetter is a UK-based, BACP-registered therapist who brings a blend of professional training and decades of experience supporting young people to her practice. With three years of formal professional practice and more than 30 years of work with young people in various roles, she offers perspectives shaped by long-term engagement with families, schools, and community settings. Her practice focuses on relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, career issues, coping with life changes, ADHD, stress and anxiety, addictions, mood disorders including depression and bipolar, and matters affecting LGBT clients among other areas.

Working in her 50s, Joanne draws on life experience as well as clinical skills to meet people where they are. She emphasises respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she adapts conversations and treatment plans to reflect each person’s circumstances and goals. Her approach is client-centered, meaning she prioritises the client’s perspective and works collaboratively to foster clearer understanding and practical steps forward. Joanne frames seeking help as an act of courage and supports clients through those first steps toward greater fulfilment and well-being.

Client-Centered Care Delivered Online

Joanne’s primary clinical approach is client-centered therapy, which places the client’s experience at the heart of the work. This method focuses on active listening, empathy, and supporting people to explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace - it is particularly helpful for relationship concerns, parenting challenges, anxiety, and issues related to self-esteem.

In practice Joanne also emphasizes an individualised planning approach, tailoring conversations and agreed steps to each person’s situation and goals. This means therapy is collaborative - the therapist and client work together to identify priorities, try different strategies, and adjust the plan as needed so the approach fits the client’s needs and preferences.

Online therapy with Joanne is available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access regular support without travel, help maintain continuity during life transitions, and allow clients to choose the format that feels most comfortable for them while working with a registered professional.