Joanne Sage

Joanne Sage is a UK-licensed therapist with 10 years of professional experience. She supports people dealing with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, motivation struggles, self-esteem and confidence concerns, and depression.

She has worked for a number of charities over the years, including Together working for mental well-being, Place2be, Integrated neurological services and Youth counselling services, while also maintaining a private practice. Joanne aims to create an open, safe environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgement.

As an experienced integrative counsellor, Joanne draws on a range of methods tailored to each person’s needs, helping clients make sense of what is happening for them and find ways to move forward. She offers support in building better boundaries and identifying what an individual needs in order to grow and progress in a safe, non-judgemental space.

Joanne works with the concept of resilience - the ability to adapt to challenging, adverse and traumatic events - and treats resilience as a set of strategies that can be learned and practised. Her work focuses on strengthening resources, increasing distress tolerance and offering a place to reprocess trauma and its effects.

Family history and inter-generational patterns are also explored, as past dynamics can influence the present in ways we do not always notice. Joanne incorporates mindfulness meditation for people with long-term anxiety and depression and pays attention to the somatic experience of how trauma can be stored in the body, helping clients understand survival responses and why those reactions may persist.

Her approach is empathetic and empowering, aimed at helping people discover inner strengths and take active steps toward personal growth and healing. Joanne seeks to build trust and work through unhelpful patterns, adapting creatively to each client’s needs and supporting them as they take the first steps toward a more fulfilling life.