Joanne Harratt, BACP

When worries and anxieties make day-to-day life harder, Joanne Harratt provides a supportive, nonjudgmental space where emotions and thoughts can be explored. She creates an environment in which people are listened to and heard, and she helps them reflect on how past and present issues influence current patterns of feeling and behaviour. By examining why certain reactions occur or why similar choices are repeated, Joanne helps clients increase self-understanding and consider pathways for growth and change.

Her approach is client led and tailored to each person’s needs. Joanne values counselling as a dedicated time for reflection - a place to take stock of what is happening in life and to be genuinely acknowledged. She draws on client-centered principles alongside Emotionally-Focused Therapy and psychodynamic ideas to guide the therapeutic work.

Joanne’s formal training includes a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling awarded by the Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body and a Certificate of Higher Education in Psychodynamic Counselling from the University of Leicester. She has completed additional professional development such as training in Complicated Grief (Patrick Cawley, 2019), Transactional Analysis (John Monk Steel, 2019), Solution Focused Therapy (Naomi Whitehead, 2019), Hearing Voices (2018), Effective Anger Management tools for working with men (2017), and workshops on attachment theory, creative interventions, intrusive thoughts, and working with survivors of sexualised traumas.

Joanne has volunteered extensively with charities supporting people with complex needs, including organizations assisting women who have experienced domestic violence and sexual abuse, and a charity supporting male victims of rape and sexual abuse. She is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.