Joanne Bruce, BACP

Joanne Bruce is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with seven years' experience. She works with adults on practical concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, parenting strains and anger. Joanne draws on life experience and clinical training to help people find clearer ways to manage strong feelings and day-to-day pressures.

She began in education and sport, and later trained in Person Centred Counselling. Her background includes foundation degrees in Counselling Studies and Early Childhood Studies and a bachelor’s degree in Education Studies. Those roles shaped how she approaches setbacks and change in people's lives.

Joanne uses straightforward methods that encourage people to talk through what matters. She combines client-centred listening with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to identify patterns of thinking and behaviour. Solution-Focused ideas and Motivational Interviewing also appear when a short-term, goal-orientated focus helps move things forward.

In sessions she pays attention to practical steps - small experiments, different ways of responding, and clearer communication with others. She supports people wrestling with anger and emotional regulation by looking at triggers, unhelpful reactions and alternative responses that reduce tension over time.

Her lived experience of sport, injury and rebuilding personal identity informs how she works with setbacks. Joanne also supports concerns such as grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD and neurodivergent challenges. She accepts international clients and runs therapy in English.

How Joanne’s therapeutic approaches work online