Jo Almond, BACP

Counsellor Jo Almond is a BACP member with four years' experience. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and offers executive and professional coaching. Sessions are provided in English and she practises in the United Kingdom.

Jo uses a client-centred way of working. She focuses on listening carefully and helping people notice what matters to them. That can include looking at responses to stress, patterns in close relationships, or reactions after difficult events.

She also draws on mindfulness approaches to help people manage overwhelming thoughts and strong feelings. Mindfulness tools are taught simply and practised in session so people can try them between meetings. Jo uses somatic ideas too, which means paying attention to bodily signals and how the body holds tension after distress.

Trauma-focused work is offered when needed, concentrating on how past events affect day-to-day life now. Jo aims to move at a sensible pace and to work from what each person can manage. She does not make diagnostic claims; she helps people explore what is happening and what might help next.

Her work often touches on a wide range of life challenges such as grief, parenting strain, addiction, career pressures and health-related stress. Jo recognises differences in identity, diagnosis and disability and attends to them during sessions. To start, people are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and book an initial session.

How Jo uses relationship, mindfulness and somatic approaches online