Hi, I’m Joe…

I provide online counselling for individuals, couples and groups.
I’m based in Sussex, London and Portugal, and I work with people anywhere.
I have three specialities:
relationship counselling, working around relationship endings or when a change is needed in the relationship, marital problems, and deciding what to do if a partner has been unfaithful;

bereavement counselling, working with loss and grief, finding ways of building your new ‘normal’;

counselling for carers - which often contains elements of counselling for relationship issues and counselling for loss.

 
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We work together…

Counselling can help you understand your feelings and actions, and help you decide what you want to do next.
In one-to-one counselling it’s important that we do the work together, whatever it may be, aiming for agreed goals.
Couples counselling works when you’re both committed to find a way forward - and that may not mean that you stay together.
If you’ve found this page then you’re thinking about counselling of some sort, read my about page for more on what it would be like to work together.
Get in touch to book an appointment, or just to ask a question about counselling.

Couselling is…

Counselling is a way to unpick what’s really going on for you under the surface.
When somebody asks how you are, we usually say ‘OK’ - but counselling is working on what’s in the real answer to ‘How are you?’.
To be able to bring those things into therapy you need to feel safe, so the relationship between you and your counsellor is vitally important.
It defines the ‘safe space’ in which you can talk about what you need to, and in which the therapeutic work is done.
Counselling is powerful - it can help you to bring about big changes in your relationships, your life, and how you live it.

What now?

Drop me a message on the ‘Contact Joe’ button below - you don’t need to know exactly what you want - and I will respond to you within one working day.

Please remember that this is never an emergency contact - if you need urgent help contact the appropriate services - there are a few pointers on my Resources page.

 

Find out more about my counselling style and how we can work together.