Joanne Bruce

Joanne Bruce is a compassionate therapist based in the United Kingdom who creates a warm, empowering space where adults and young people can feel seen, supported and encouraged to move through life’s challenges.

She brings seven years of professional experience together with real-life perspective as a single mother of three. Joanne’s life and work have taken her to America, Switzerland, England and Egypt, and her background in education, sport and counselling underpins a belief that people can grow through adversity and rediscover purpose wherever life leads them.

In her teens Joanne represented her country in athletics and later experienced the loss of that identity due to injury, an event that taught resilience and the process of rebuilding. She has rowed at national level and cycled through the Alpes, and now at 51 she combines a passion for helping others with a love of movement and personal growth.

Clients describe her approach as warm, grounded and deeply human. She brings empathy, humour and insight to sessions and supports people who want clarity, purpose and peace in areas such as lack of direction, relationship and family issues, anxiety and stress, depression and low mood, grief and intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting, anger and emotional regulation, work or office challenges, sport-related therapy, neurodivergent challenges including ADHD and autism, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes.

Her formal training is in Person Centred Counselling and she draws on a range of approaches, including creative methods and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). On the first assessment she and the client decide together which therapeutic methods will best meet the client’s needs. She holds Foundation Degrees in Counselling Studies and in Early Childhood Studies and Practice, plus a Bachelor’s Degree in Education Studies.