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Joanne Rayner, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseAnger managementSelf esteemDepression
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Joanne Rayner helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those facing anger, relationship strain, grief, sleep difficulties and career uncertainty. Joanne offers coaching for life changes and works with compassion fatigue and intimacy-related concerns.
She is identified with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Joanne uses a straightforward, person-centred style. She treats people as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions usually involve talking through what feels most pressing and trying small, practical steps to reduce distress. Her approach is calm and collaborative rather than directive. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Mindfulness techniques are introduced to help manage overwhelming feelings and improve focus. With five years of experience, Joanne aims to make therapy practical and understandable.
She explains methods in plain language and checks in about what is and isn’t working. People can expect a mix of reflection, skill-building and real-life tasks between sessions. Joanne practises in the United Kingdom and works in English.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire followed by scheduling a session.
How Joanne's approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how past relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change repeating dynamics that cause distress. It can be useful for worries about connection, abandonment or recurring relationship problems. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with more useful habits; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties. Mindfulness introduces simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and to build steadier focus and emotional regulation.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Joanne will explore a person's needs, goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and reviewed as therapy progresses to keep things relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes regular work easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people maintain momentum and pick the format that matches their day-to-day realities.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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