Jo Stroud, NCPS
Jo Stroud is a counsellor with ten years' experience who focuses on helping people manage trauma, relationships and everyday struggles.
About Jo
Jo Stroud is a counsellor with ten years' experience who focuses on helping people manage trauma, relationships and everyday struggles. She offers a direct and empathetic style that aims to make sessions feel warm and straightforward. Jo works online with people who are juggling busy lives and need practical support for anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and major life changes.
Jo has supported people through relationship and family issues, parenting stress, career concerns and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also helps with complex concerns such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, dissociation and overlapping mental health conditions. She has a particular interest in working with people from the neurodiverse community, including those with autism and Asperger syndrome. Her work uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and simple exercises.
Clients may do timelines, inner child work, tools from emotional focused practices, and safety and stabilisation strategies when needed. These methods are used to build coping skills and reduce distress in day-to-day life. Jo is registered with NCPS, which appears as her listed credential.
She practises from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. International clients are not currently accepted. Practical session options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and vary in cost depending on location and therapist availability.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| NCPS | NCS14-00738 | March 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Jo lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
How Jo's approaches translate to online therapy
Jo combines a few practical, evidence-based techniques to help people feel steadier and more in control. Inner child work focuses on understanding earlier experiences and how they affect feelings today; it can help with low self-esteem, attachment issues and repeating relationship patterns. Timelines are a simple tool for mapping life events and spotting patterns so clients can make clearer sense of their history and current reactions. Safety and stabilisation techniques teach pacing, grounding and short coping strategies so people can manage strong emotions before moving into deeper trauma work.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through the options, try exercises in sessions and adjust methods based on your goals, needs and preferences. That shared planning helps create a clear, step-by-step path forward.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, faster emotional support and people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting and daily life.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Jo commonly support?
She helps people with trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, anxiety, depression and stress. Other focuses include self-esteem, parenting strain, career worries and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe Jo's therapeutic style?
Her style is direct, empathetic and genuine. She blends practical exercises with conversation to build skills and awareness.
What is Jo's professional background?
Jo has ten years of experience as a therapist working with people on a range of mental health and trauma-related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
The profile shows NCPS as the provided credential and lists her location as the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payment structured?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Jo?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.