Welcome to Tangerine Lotus

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Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or just not yourself lately? Are you struggling to sleep? Perhaps you’re struggling with stress, low mood, or difficulties at work and/or home. Perhaps you have just lost a loved one. It’s perfectly natural to seek help, and you’ve already taken the first brave step by looking for support.

I offer in-person and online/telephone psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), based on proven approaches that are designed to help you understand, challenge, and change your patterns of thinking, behaving, and relating. I offer a confidential space to talk openly and work through whatever’s troubling you. 

Imagine feeling more in control, confident in facing life’s challenges, and be able to enjoy richer relationships and greater peace of mind. My personalised approach means your therapy is tailored to your individual needs, whether you wish to manage anxiety, overcome depression, sleep well, process unresolved trauma, or simply improve your overall wellbeing. My clients often tell me how empowering it feels to gain new perspectives and practical tools from our sessions. You deserve to feel better, and with the right support, change is possible.

Ready to take the next step? Contact me today to arrange an initial consultation or to ask any questions. You can reach me by email or via the links at the end of this page, and I’ll get back to you promptly. Your path to a brighter future begins here.

My name is Joanne, and ​I am a qualified psychotherapist. I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I am also an accredited professional member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), as well as a certified clinical trauma professional (CCTP) and qualified PCE-CfD practitioner.

After a career in academia, I worked in an NHS Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT)Centre providing counselling to adults in West London. Consequently I have experience of working with people of various ages and backgrounds. I also have experience of working with a wide range of issues (including anxiety, depression and bereavement), as well as working with neurodivergence (ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia etc). I currently run my own private practice, and I work for Health Assured Wisdom Wellbeing and BUPA.

I am an integrative psychotherapist, and therefore I draw upon a range of therapeutic approaches to treat a variety of mental health issues. These include:

• Integrative psychotherapy, including person-centred, psychodynamic and Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches for working with relational problems, trauma, bereavement and loss (EG from divorce, separation or redundancy etc.).
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for treating anxiety (EG general, social, OCD and phobia), depression, and anger management; as well as CBT-I for treating insomnia.
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for treating developmental trauma, anxiety, depression and a variety of other issues. 
• Person Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD) to work with depression. 

All of these approaches are NHS approved, with evidence to support their efficacy. I am also a qualified and accredited pet bereavement counsellor.

I may suggest the use of somatic activities/exercises to help you regulate your autonomic nervous system (ANS). These are evidence based neurological practices that I recommend alongside my main therapeutic approaches. We can explore these together.

​In the first instance, I will suggest a brief no-obligation telephone call where we can explore your hopes and goals for therapy. I can also answer any questions you might have about me and we can work out how we might work together. Once we start, I will suggest regular reviews of our progress. These reviews will use NHS approved mental health audit tools to guide us to a successful outcome.