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Where Complexity Meets Clarity and Care

Complex challenges and unresolved trauma aren’t solved with generic advice. I provide psychotherapy and counselling for individuals and organisations navigating high-pressure roles, demanding responsibilities, and trauma-related challenges — turning overwhelm into actionable insight.

Since 2019, I’ve specialised in supporting clients who need expert, structured guidance. Whether you’re a senior professional managing stress, trauma, or high-stakes responsibilities, or an organisation or individual seeking tailored support for your team or yourself, my approach combines compassionate care with practical clarity to deliver real-world results.

One-to-one psychotherapy, therapeutic coaching, and corporate workshops are all personalised to your specific needs. You will be heard, understood, and guided with professional insight, so you can make confident choices and move forward with control, clarity, and resilience.

Based in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, I offer both online and face-to-face sessions, ensuring accessible, high-quality support wherever you are.

If you’re seeking a psychotherapist who handles complexity and trauma with precision, compassion, and expertise, you’re in the right place.

Joanne Sims

Joanne Sims is the founder of Joanne Sims Wellbeing. She has spent many years working in various sectors of the NHS before training and qualifying as a Mental Health Nurse (RMN) in September 2003.

Joanne practised as an RMN for over 10 years gaining a wealth of knowledge and expertise in her field. Areas worked in covered a wide variety including hospital inpatient environments and community-based nursing caring for young people, adults and older people and their families as well as those with learning disabilities.

In 2014 Joanne founded and for several years chaired Downright Perfect, a charity based in Dorset. The charity's objectives are to support people in the Dorset and surrounding area who have a family member with a diagnosis of Downs Syndrome.

Believing passionately in the holistic and person-centred care approach for every person, Joanne decided to retrain and compile all of her professional and personal experience and knowledge together to help people. She qualified as a counsellor in July 2019 and has transitioned into the councilling arena undertaking further extended training with a special interest in trauma and it's effects on individuals, how this can present and ways to assist individuals with these issues.

Joanne also recognised that people need choice in their wellbeing journey and therefore decided to train as a life coach and qualified in 2020, furthermore expanding the services avaliable to her clients.

Joanne has added to her skill base by becoming an NLP practitioner and has now also undertaken an advanced deep holistic life coaching training to offer her coaching clients the ultimate transformational expereince along with the principles of embodiment work to deepen the changes that clients expereince.

Joanne strongly believes that wellbeing is for all, no matter the persons' situation and is driven to work creatively to help her clients on their journey with them in the driving seat.

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Next Steps

Contact us on 07470 598 600 or via the Contact page to arrange a free 20 minute consultation.

We will establish which services meet your needs best and setup an initial face-to-face consultation where a thorough assessment will be completed and individual plan devised.

After the assessment is complete we will provide a contract for each service offered that outlines what is expected by each party and to manage expectations and responsiblities. It will also cover out privacy policy including GDPR and payment terms.

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