- Years in practice
- 12
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Grief
About Joanna
Joanna Oxford is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and parenting challenges. She supports those dealing with relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, sleep problems and low self-esteem. Joanna also works with people navigating career change, compassion fatigue, ADHD and other life transitions.
She brings 12 years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which she uses alongside a flexible therapeutic style. Sessions are warm and interactive, with an emphasis on listening before planning any next steps.
Background and approach
Joanna seeks to treat each person with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Her approach blends practical tools and exploratory conversation. She uses cognitive-behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and to build new habits.
She also draws on attachment thinking to look at relationship patterns and on emotionally focused work to help access and name feelings. Joanna tailors conversations and plans to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all model. She has worked in NHS mental health services and later moved into therapeutic roles that emphasise collaborative care.
Over time she has adapted methods to suit individual goals. In recent years Joanna has expanded her practice to offer video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging sessions. She sees online work as a practical way to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep conversations going when in-person sessions are difficult to arrange.
What Joanna works with
Everything Joanna lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Joanna helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Joanna lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Joanna uses evidence-based approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety and life changes because it focuses on what matters rather than trying to stop every difficult thought.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It gives straightforward tools to test unhelpful beliefs and build new habits, which can help with sleep problems, low mood and anxiety.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past and current relationship patterns affect how people relate to others and to themselves. It can be helpful when intimacy, communication or repeated relationship difficulties are a concern.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Joanna will talk with each person about their goals and try different ways of working until a good fit is found. This is a collaborative process where the client helps shape what happens in sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or when writing helps someone think things through. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work and family life.
Questions people ask about Joanna
What concerns does Joanna support?
She supports stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, relationship issues, grief, trauma and related problems such as sleeping difficulties and low self-esteem.
What is her overall therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, interactive and respectful. She listens first, then works collaboratively to shape practical conversations and goals.
How much experience does she have?
Joanna has 12 years of experience and has worked within NHS mental health services before moving into therapeutic practice.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Joanna offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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