Joanne Rankin, NCPS

Joanne Rankin works with adults who are facing trauma, grief, sleep problems, bipolar mood challenges and career-related stress. She is calm and direct, and she offers practical ways to manage difficult feelings and day-to-day struggles. Joanne holds NCPS accreditation and brings eight years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom.

She uses a mix of approaches so sessions can be shaped around what each person needs. That can mean looking at thoughts and behaviours, building awareness through mindfulness, or exploring attachment patterns that affect relationships. Joanne talks through concrete steps, and helps people set realistic goals they can try between sessions.

Her background includes support for people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster-care histories, body-image concerns, chronic illness and pain, codependency and communication problems. She also works with issues such as domestic violence, divorce and separation, fertility problems and feelings of emptiness.

Joanne integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and attachment-based ideas into her practice. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. She aims to make therapeutic work relatable and useful.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. People who choose Joanne can expect clear steps, practical tools and space to reflect while they work toward change.

How Joanne’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It encourages choosing actions that line up with personal values, which can help with grief, mood swings and ongoing stress.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going. It uses practical exercises and experiments to change unhelpful habits and improve sleep, mood and daily functioning.

Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationships shape how someone connects now. It can be useful for people who struggle with trust, abandonment worries or repeated relationship difficulties.

Working together, the therapist and client decide which of these ways of working to use. Joanne matches methods to the person’s goals and preferences, and checks in about what is helping as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video can suit in-depth conversations and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter written check-ins and messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.