Joel Burns, NCPS

Joel Burns is a psychotherapist registered with NCPS and has six years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. He helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping and eating difficulties, anger, and parenting concerns. He also supports work on self-esteem, career questions, and life transitions.

Joel works in a plain, straightforward way. He uses a mix of approaches and talks with clients about what feels most useful. Sessions focus on practical skills, increasing awareness of recurring patterns, and finding manageable steps forward. He aims to help people notice how past relationships shape present behaviour and responses.

Therapy with Joel often combines short-term strategies and longer-term exploration. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques may be used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas can help people live by their values even when feelings are difficult. He also draws on client-centred and existential ideas to support reflection and meaning-making.

Joel describes his method as educative and supportive. He teaches coping skills, problem solving, motivation techniques and ways to build insight. Sessions emphasise practical tools that people can try between meetings and review together.

Originally from the United States, Joel has worked and studied in several countries. He highlights working with people from diverse backgrounds and offers sessions in English. He accepts international clients and uses a subscription model for sessions that can be cancelled at any time.

How Joel uses therapeutic approaches online