Josephine Ellis, BACP

Josephine Ellis is a counsellor with 13 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on helping people navigate relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and motivation. She meets people where they are and treats them as experts in their own lives.

Josephine believes small steps matter. She works collaboratively, helping clients name what feels wrong and decide what to try next. Sessions aim to build on strengths and clarify practical steps that fit everyday life.

Her background includes long-term work with people facing grief, stress, anxiety and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with eating and body image issues, attachment concerns, and the effects of sexual assault and abuse. Josephine has experience with obsessive thoughts, compulsions, dissociation and post-traumatic stress.

She offers help around parenting strains, anger, career worries and the particular challenges young adults often face. Seasonal affective disorder, self-harm thoughts, and social anxiety are also within her practice areas. The approach is tailored to each person’s situation rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Sessions can be delivered in English and Josephine accepts international clients. People interested in starting will complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability. This begins a step-by-step process focused on what a person wants to change.

Her aim is straightforward: make therapy useful and usable. She helps people turn small insights into practical changes that feel manageable in daily life.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Josephine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional recovery. One common approach helps people process traumatic memories and reduce their hold on daily life by pacing discussions and developing coping skills for distressing memories. Another set of strategies targets unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns - the work involves spotting routines that cause pain and testing small changes to see what helps. These methods often suit concerns such as anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts and stress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Josephine will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods feel most useful and then check in to adjust the plan as needed.

Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and share documents when needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter space is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, journalling between sessions or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel.