Joanne Bruce , BACP

Joanne Bruce creates a warm, empowering space where adults and young people can feel seen, supported, and encouraged to move through life’s challenges. As a therapist and practitioner with a practical, lived understanding of change, she blends professional training with personal experience to help clients rediscover direction and purpose. She is a single mother of three whose life and work have taken her across America, Switzerland, England, and Egypt, and those international experiences inform her flexible, person-focused approach.

Her own journey includes high-level sport in her teens, where injury required a rebuilding of identity and taught resilience. She has rowed at national level and cycled through the Alpes, experiences she draws on to support others facing loss, transition, or the need to adapt. Now at 51, she combines a passion for movement and growth with a commitment to therapeutic practice.

Trained in Person-Centred Counselling and experienced using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) alongside creative methods, Joanne works collaboratively with clients in assessment to choose the most suitable approach. She holds BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and has Foundation Degrees in Counselling Studies and Early Childhood Studies and Practice, plus a Bachelors Degree in Education Studies. Clients describe her manner as warm, grounded, and deeply human, and she brings empathy, humour, and insight to support people with stress, anxiety, relationships, family matters, self-esteem, depression, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting, anger, coping with life changes, ADHD, autism, and related challenges.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Joanne Bruce

Joanne commonly draws on Person-Centred therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in her online work. Person-Centred therapy focuses on offering empathy, acceptance, and understanding so clients can explore their feelings and find their own path forward - it is often helpful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship concerns. CBT is a practical, structured approach that looks at the links between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours and can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problem-solving.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process and Joanne treats this as a collaborative decision. During an initial assessment she and the client will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and they will adjust methods together as therapy progresses.

Online therapy with Joanne is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These options allow clients to fit therapy around work, family, or life commitments and to engage in ways that feel manageable, while still working with licensed professionals and therapists who can tailor support to individual needs.