About Josephine
Josephine Patten-Walsh is a BACP counsellor with ten years' experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grieving, relationship problems and life changes. She works with adults, couples and teenagers and uses a blend of talking and body-aware approaches to make sense of difficult feelings.
Her way of working is practical and steady. She listens without judgement and helps clients name what is happening inside them. That might mean noticing bodily sensations, spotting unhelpful behaviour patterns, or practising small changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.
Background and approach
Josephine draws on a range of approaches such as somatic work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas. Sessions can focus on immediate coping skills or on deeper patterns that have repeated over time. She aims to match her style to what each person needs in the moment.
Clients who come with trauma, abuse, loss, addiction or chronic health worries are offered a calm space to untangle difficult memories and reactions. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image and the fallout from major life events. Her background includes research into neurodivergence and ongoing study of trauma and PTSD.
Josephine is BACP registered which reflects her standing within that professional framework. She practises in the United Kingdom and carries a pragmatic, compassionate approach to therapy.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to the body's signals and movement as clues to emotion. It can help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from their senses to notice and shift physical patterns that keep problems repeating.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, chronic health concerns and when someone wants clearer direction in life.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. It can help with intimacy issues, communication problems and patterns of avoidance or clinginess in adult relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person's story, try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful. Goals and methods are adjusted over time so clients can see what helps them in daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. That makes it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs and to use short check-ins or longer sessions as required. Many people find the range of formats makes it simpler to practise skills between sessions and maintain steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English