Joanne Jones, BACP

Joanne Jones is a BACP-accredited counsellor who provides one-to-one support for adults and young people and also offers couples work. She brings several years of direct counselling experience to her practice and has worked across immediate response and trauma-focused roles.

She completed her initial qualification in 2016 at Staffordshire University and in the same year gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Advocacy for Victims of Sexual Violence from the University of Worcester. In 2024 she qualified as an EMDR Trauma Therapist - EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a trauma-focused method - and in 2020 she achieved a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Supervision from the Manchester Institute of Psychotherapy. Her background includes several years working in trauma therapy with survivors of sexual and domestic violence, time supporting callers on a local mental health helpline, and experience with a leading employee assistance provider delivering immediate support counselling across a range of mental health and life challenges. She also worked for four years as an Independent Sexual Violence Advisor, supporting people through the criminal justice system.

Joanne describes her therapeutic foundation as person-centred and practises using an integrative approach with particular interests in solution-focused work, attachment theory, and creative counselling. As an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) she works within that ethical framework, values personal nature of sessions, maintains clear professional boundaries, and adopts a client-led stance to collaboratively explore concerns and possible solutions.