Joanne Thacker , BACP

Joanne Thacker is a counsellor who focuses on helping women who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or depression. She meets people where they are and listens without judgement. Her approach is gentle and practical, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.

Joanne uses a blend of ways of working to suit each person. She leans on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. She also draws on client-centred and narrative approaches to help people tell their story and find new meanings.

She trained in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration, which reflects a recognised professional standard in counselling practice. Joanne has around three years of experience working with trauma and domestic abuse, and she often supports people dealing with loss, relationship strain and long-term health concerns.

Sessions focus on what matters most to the client. Joanne offers time to talk things through, explore difficult feelings and try small, practical changes between sessions. She aims to make each meeting feel like a clear step forward rather than an overwhelming task.

Joanne can work with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and loneliness. She also supports people coping with divorce, control and commitment worries, hoarding behaviours, guilt and shame. Her practice is intended to be steady and compassionate as people rebuild confidence and make decisions that suit them.

How Joanne's approaches translate to online therapy

Joanne commonly uses attachment-based and client-centred approaches when working online. Attachment-based work looks at how early and close relationships shape current reactions and helps people notice patterns that cause distress. This can be useful for relationship worries, abandonment concerns and anxiety about trust. Client-centred work focuses on offering a compassionate, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist reflects back what is said to promote clarity and self-understanding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Joanne will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods as therapy progresses. That means she aims to be collaborative, checking in often and changing focus if a different method suits better over time.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is wanted. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, pacing sessions differently or for people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around day-to-day life and reach support from different locations.