Joanna Hermo

I currently work online, holding sessions over zoom and offer sessions Monday-Friday during the day and on some evenings as well.

If you are interested in sessions please send me an email or text and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I am an MBACP (Accred) Integrative therapist which means I adapt my approach to your individual therapeutic needs and what you hope to achieve from therapy. 

Sessions are person-centered, meaning that I work in an open, non-judgemental and collaborative way to help build a safe relationship between us to explore current stressors.

I also take a psychodynamic approach to explore how past experiences may unconsciously be shaping your patterns of behaviour and perception of the world. 

Additionally, I sometimes use tools from modalities such as  Internal Family Systems and Transactional Analysis to help you develop self-compassion and greater self-awareness.  

Finally, I am also a trained EMDR therapist and offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) as a stand-alone therapy or alongside our existing work together. EMDR therapy assists individuals in healing from traumatic events that still trigger painful feelings today. EMDR also helps to shift negative cognitive beliefs about yourself into more constructive, healthy ones.

There are times in every person's life when things feel overwhelming, hopeless or impossible and it can be difficult knowing what to do in these moments or where to turn to for support. In my work with clients I aim to create an environment  where you can express yourself without fear of judgement or rejection. 

I use empathy to explore what is happening from your perspective to empower you to find the strength within yourself to make positive changes in your life. I am so grateful to work alongside people to help them see their own self worth and potential.

If you are interested in starting sessions together, please feel free to email or text me and I will get back to you as soon as possible. We can then organise an initial session together. Alternatively, if you would like to find out a little more about how I work or ask any further questions, I am happy to have a free 10 minute phone call with you instead.

I am also a registered AXA practitioner and so if you have health insurance with AXA and would like to pay for your sessions using this, please contact AXA prior to our first session to obtain your pre-authorisation code and membership/policy number and share this with me. 

Our first session together will be a time where I learn a little more about you, what has brought you to seek therapy at this point in your life and what you hope to gain from our time together. 

This will enable me to assess whether I believe I can offer you the support you are looking for and  is also an opportunity for you to gain a bit more of an understanding about how I work so that you can decide if this feels right for you.

Unless a fixed number of sessions are agreed upon from the start, I usually work in an open-ended way . This means that once we have decided on an agreed time to meet each week, this slot is yours for as long as you want to have therapy together.