About Joanne
Joanne Sage is a counsellor with ten years of professional therapy experience and a background spanning over two decades in mental health work. She specialises in common and complex problems such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self‑esteem, depression, addictions and relationship and intimacy‑related issues.
Her practice also supports people facing sleep or eating difficulties, parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue and challenges linked to ADHD and bipolar mood variations.
Background and approach
Joanne uses a flexible, person‑centred approach. She draws on somatic work to notice how the body holds tension and trauma. She also uses attachment‑based ideas and cognitive strategies to help people understand patterns and learn new ways to respond.
Sessions aim to be calm, practical and tailored to each person’s needs. Her style is warm and direct. Joanne helps people build healthier boundaries, increase distress tolerance and reconnect with inner strengths.
She offers mindfulness practices for ongoing anxiety or depression and encourages small steps that can be practised between sessions. In the room she will look at how family history and early relationships shape present behaviour. That exploration is used alongside somatic and cognitive work to make sense of reactions and to create strategies for change.
The focus is on helping people feel more able to cope and move forward. Joanne works with people in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP, and brings practical experience from both charity and independent practice settings.
How Somatic and Attachment Approaches Work Online
Somatic work pays attention to how the body holds stress and trauma. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing and grounding exercises to help people notice physical reactions and learn ways to calm them. This approach can be helpful for anxiety, trauma responses and persistent tension.Attachment‑based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In counselling this means exploring repeated ways of relating and practising new responses. It can support people who struggle with trust, abandonment fears or repeating unhelpful relationship habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and then use a blend of somatic, attachment and person‑centred or cognitive techniques as appropriate. The process is collaborative so you can shape what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation from home, phone sessions suit people on the go, and live chat or text messaging provide shorter check‑ins or written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping continuity of care with the same counsellor.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English