Josephine Patten-Walsh , BACP

Josephine Patten-Walsh is a BACP-accredited psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom with ten years of clinical experience. She combines trauma-informed and integrative methods to help people face difficult experiences, manage emotional stress, and recover from challenging events. Her work focuses on helping people understand their emotions, improve relationships, and interrupt unhelpful patterns of behaviour.

Skilled at creating a reassuring therapeutic context, she offers both short-term support for specific situations and longer-term work aimed at deeper self-understanding. Her training includes contemporary cognitive behavioural approaches and creative interventions, and she is among a small number of UK psychotherapists trained in AEDP - an integrative, trauma-informed model that draws on neurobiology and traditional psychotherapy.

Josephine holds BACP accreditation, which indicates she has demonstrated a high level of proficiency as a counsellor and psychotherapist within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework. She also holds a Clinical Supervision Qualification and enhanced DBS status for work with children and vulnerable adults, reflecting her professional standards and experience working with diverse populations including adults, adolescents, couples and clinical supervisees.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, coping with life changes, addictions, family and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting, anger, self-esteem and compassion fatigue. She has additional experience with attachment and abandonment issues, neurodivergence and its mental health impact, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, codependency and the effects of migration across generations. Her ongoing study of PTSD and Complex Trauma complements research undertaken as part of her counselling degree into neurodivergence such as Autism and ADHD.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without being dominated by them, while guiding people to take values-based actions; it can help with anxiety, stress, and difficulties that arise when behaviour gets stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and early bonds, exploring how those patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses, and can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and family difficulties. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviours through practical strategies and is often used for anxiety, low mood, insomnia and behavioural change.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Josephine works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to identify which methods best match a person’s needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the focus as work progresses to ensure a good fit.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or ongoing text-based messaging. These options make it easier to access consistent support around work, family and mobility constraints, allowing therapists to deliver evidence-informed approaches in ways that suit each person’s life.