Jo Thomas

I have availability and work in-person and online.

I work with adult men, women and identifications in between. No matter your background, our similarities and differences, I aim to listen and understand you and create the conditions for you to move toward a fuller functioning you.

Being human is complex; many clients say they have a critical internal voice, suffer with self-doubt, lack of confidence, find it hard to talk about their feelings, seem unable to make a decision or change the way they do things.

As a counsellor I am familiar with these ways of being and can help you understand where they come from. The counselling process allows you to open up to the real you and your potential.

My counselling style is evidence-based and founded in Person-centred Theory and I’m a big fan. I offer compassion and unconditional regard to all aspects of you throughout the work.

I might help you make decisions but won’t impose my beliefs or opinions onto you. If I don’t understand, I will ask and we’ll uncover your complexities together.

I endeavour to bring my kind honesty and authentic self to the work, along with professional boundaries, allowing you to feel safe. We create a working relationship built on trust and mutual respect. There may be tears but also laughter.

You can contact me via the enquiry links on the left of this page. Please give your email address and if you are able, your phone number.

I will respond via email at first and then we can organise a free phone consultation, usually around 20 minutes.

This helps me understand what you need, is for you to ask any questions and will help you decide if you’d like to book in. I then send confirmation and our agreement by email.

For in-person sessions I use a comfortable log cabin in St Stephen, PL26, Cornwall.

My online sessions use Zoom and are for anyone anywhere in the UK.

I have worked with hearing impairments online.I update risk assessments and procedures regularly for coping with Covid-19.

I provide clinical supervision to qualified and student counsellors, to meet your ethical requirements and to enhance your professional practice. I have 4 years supervisory experience and L6 Diploma in Supervision (NCS).

I offer a Person-centred approach to your supervision but work with a range of counselling modalities. The frameworks I mainly use are Shohet and Shohet ‘The Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision’ and Page and Wosket the ‘Cyclical Model of Supervision’.

I also work with teachers, NHS staff, Ministry of Justice staff and body therapists to help you work through difficult situations and help you be the best you can for your students, patients or clients.

With Supervision we develop an open and honest relationship and  work toward the edge of our awareness to be the best we can for our clients. My approach is built on a foundation of boundaries and ethics which allows us to be our full selves. I listen to what you need and give you support from a range of perspectives, experience and theory.

Continual training and research strengthens my practice. Recent professional courses: working with addiction, bereavement, trauma-informed approaches, Attachment Theory and relationships, the nervous system and Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, Transactional Analysis, anger - rage - guilt - shame, Ecopsychology, Outdoor Therapy.

You can contact me via the enquiry links on the left of this page. Please give your email address and if you are able, your phone number.

I will respond via email at first and then we can organise a free phone consultation, usually around 20 minutes.

I then send confirmation and our agreement by email.

For in-person sessions I use a comfortable log cabin in St Stephen, PL26, Cornwall.

My online sessions use Zoom and are for anyone anywhere in the UK.

I offer 1.5 hour sessions.