Joanne Bruce , BACP

Joanne Bruce creates a welcoming, empowering therapeutic space where adults and young people can feel seen, supported, and motivated to move through life’s challenges. Drawing on a mix of professional training and lived experience, she blends empathy, practical strategies, and a belief in personal growth to help clients rediscover direction and purpose.

As a single mother of three who has lived and worked in America, Switzerland, England, and Egypt, Joanne brings a broad cultural perspective to her work. Her background in education, sport, and counselling has informed a resilient, solution-focused outlook. In her teens she represented her country in athletics and later had to rebuild her sense of identity after an injury - an experience that deepened her understanding of loss, resilience, and recovery. She has also rowed at national level and cycled through the Alpes, experiences she references when supporting clients to regain strength through both setbacks and achievements. Now at 51, she combines a passion for helping others with a lifelong interest in movement and personal development.

Clients describe her approach as warm, grounded and deeply human. She brings empathy, humour, and practical insight to sessions, helping people reconnect with themselves and move forward with greater confidence. Joanne supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, low self-esteem, depression and grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and caregiver stress, ADHD and neurodivergent challenges, anger and emotional regulation, and change related to aging or life transitions.

Her formal training is in Person-Centred Counselling, and she integrates creativity and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) into her practice. On the first assessment she and the client decide together which approaches will best meet the client’s needs. Joanne holds Foundation Degrees in Counselling Studies and in Early Childhood Studies and Practice, along with a Bachelor of Education Studies, and she is affiliated with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.