Holistic Counselling

Welcome to the heart of what I share.

The term holistic means “to become whole”. Holistic counselling is a therapeutic approach that recognises the interconnectedness of all aspects of an individual's life. This integrative approach to therapy invites you to explore the root causes of your challenges in order to support personal growth, healing and meaningful change.

What is Holistic Counselling?

The holistic counselling approach extends beyond traditional talk therapy by integrating various aspects of your life to promote overall wellbeing. I support you in navigating the challenges, stressors and triggers that are present in your everyday life, whether that be in your relationships, work, health or purpose.

Rather than focusing solely on specific issues or symptoms, holistic counselling considers you as a whole, taking into account your mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual wellbeing. While I support individuals through a holistic framework, my approach to counselling is also grounded and practical. Therefore, I hold a safe space for you to process difficulties and learn how to manage real issues that arise in your life with greater insight, balance and freedom.

Holistic counselling sessions can be booked as single sessions or as a package of 3, 5 or 10.

“Observing holistically - to observe, to see or to listen to the whole total content of something. We look at things partially, according to our pleasure, or according to our conditioning, or according to some idealistic point of view. So we are always looking at things fragmentarily….to observe freely, holistically, means there is no fragmentation. To observe holistically implies freedom.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Who can Benefit from Holistic Counselling?

Holistic Counselling is for those:

  • Dealing with Stress and Anxiety: Process and release layers of stress, exhaustion and overwhelm.

  • Navigating Life Transitions: Get support during significant changes and explore new perspectives.

  • Dealing with Emotional Challenges: Address depression, grief, anger, and build emotional wellbeing.

  • Holding Self-Limiting Beliefs: Explore and resolve deeply rooted thinking patterns that are holding you back.

  • Seeking Personal Growth: Foster self-development, self-awareness, and a more meaningful life.

  • Facing Relationship Issues: Improve communication, cultivate compassion and process family dynamics.

  • Managing Chronic Health Conditions: Complement medical treatment, enhance resilience, and improve your wellbeing.

  • On a Spiritual Journey: Explore and deepen your spiritual connection in a supportive environment.

  • Seeking Holistic Wellbeing: Embrace a balanced approach to mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health.

Four Pillars that Inform my Approach to Holistic Counselling:

Compassionate Inquiry® | Inner Parts Work | Body-Based Practices | Mindfulness

For further information about these pillars, you can click here to read my Wellspring Journal post.

If you would like to know more about whether my approach to holistic counselling will be a good fit for you, you’re welcome to book a free 15 minute connection call. This will give us the opportunity to briefly connect, explore where you are at and to see if I am the right person to support you.

  • Testimonials

    “I’ve been working with Joella over the past 4 months and it’s been pretty clear to me during this time how much I have benefitted from our sessions together. There is a saying about “if you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family”… and after going home to spend a week with my family over Christmas (while sharing a house sit with my ex-partner) - I’m so incredibly grateful for and in awe of the work Joella and I have done together. Through our work I have expanded my capacity to navigate uncomfortable feelings and situations, to be present with moments of joy in my life (without anxiety or sabotage), and to express myself in a more authentic way more often. All of which is allowing me to deepen my love for myself and my relationships with others.

    Joella has guided me through gentle enquiry and allowed me to feel seen, heard, and held through the healing of past hurts and complex traumas. Joella is compassionate and warm in her approach. I am beyond grateful for her presence, and for the work she has done in order to hold others in their own process. At the end of each session I am often left in awe, at peace, and filled with appreciation for her and the space she holds for me to heal. Thank you Joella.”

    — Chelsea

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    “Words cannot express how thankful I am for Joella's profoundly transformative work and guidance. As a psychological consultant myself, I have been devoted to understanding my inner world and healing past wounds through various modalities over the past decade. Having worked with Joella for quite some time, I dare say that her presence, compassion and everything that she so beautifully brings forth during our sessions, have led me to unknown levels of self-acceptance and self-love. The safe and nurturing space that she creates online is exceptional and I have rarely felt so seen, held and securely guided through whatever is ready to emerge during our sessions. Dear Joella, you are a gift to this and above all my little world and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your beautiful, healing presence during my journey of embodying and loving all that is truly me in this lifetime. I look so much forward to continuing our work.”

    — Carmen

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    “I have been working with Joella now for three months and the work she is doing is incredible. I feel very safe and held. It is hard to put in words as it just feels like magic. Her inquiries are so gentle and still so deep. With Joella I feel like I am able to let go as I always feel safe and therefore I can go very deep by becoming more aware of my patterns and beliefs. Since the beginning of these three months, I feel like I have more capacity and spaciousness in my physical and emotional body to integrate and being able to give myself more space to process. I feel that a few tensions/blockages/walls in my body as well as in my mind have shifted and integrated. Thank you. Joella and her work are really just wonderful.”

    — Jessica

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    “Joella’s presence is so warm and gentle, that immediately I felt safe to share my deepest vulnerabilities with her. Through Compassionate Somatic inquiry Joella so gently explored these overwhelming parts with me and guided me to the root of them. It was such a powerful and eye opening experience. Seeing through unconscious patterns that run my life, and having a deeper understanding and compassion for them is a game changer. Not often before I have felt such a loving space where the emotions flowed easily and so much regulation and integration happened. Thank you Joella, for your love and gentleness and being there every step of the way. Highly recommend to anyone who is on the healing journey and ready to go to the root of suffering and get to know themselves more deeply in a very held and grounded space.”

    — Robine

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    “My journey with Joella has been most helpful. There have been multiple times in my life where therapy played an important role in my healing process but none were as rewarding as the sessions with Joella. She taught me how to look within, how to move into the depth of my questions and she supported me throughout. I was inspired and in awe of her dedication and willingness to hold space for me. It allowed me to feel safe and go back to painful memories and stories that held power over me from childhood. What I learned with her has permanently changed how I view myself and my healing journey!”

    — Corina

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    “I loved working with Joella. I felt trust because of the way she was present, perceptive, and nonjudgmental; and I am truly impressed how fast we went so deep, while it was also gentle and supportive at the same time. I have gained new, clear and very useful insights about a topic that I have been struggling with for years and discovered practical steps on how to implement them in my life.”

    — Jelena

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    “Joella is truly gifted in what she does. The space she creates feels safe, compassionate and warm, and I always feel completely held in her presence. She has walked beside me through the most vulnerable time of my life, and working with her has been transformational. With Joella’s guidance and support I have been able to meet and tenderly hold deep parts of myself with love, and transmute pain and fear into compassion and acceptance. Some of the deepest and most fundamental healing of my life. I highly recommend working with her if you feel called.”

    — Sarah

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    “I have been doing therapy for many years, trying different modalities and techniques hoping to find something that could alleviate my social anxiety and strengthen my mental health. I started working with Joella 8 months ago, and the difference that I feel is profound. Although our sessions are online I feel Joella’s kindness and embracing energy as she holds space for me and my vulnerability each time we sit together. She is always so present and ready to help navigate any situation I am in, teaching me tools which I then incorporate in my day to day. My tool-box is growing and I am so happy to share that I feel more grounded in myself. Joella has so much knowledge, perceptiveness and wisdom. She truly is gifted at seeing and at helping others on their healing journey. Finding Joella renewed my sense of hope that healing is possible. Joella, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything that you are and for everything that you do.”

    — Samy

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    “I wanted to thank for holding space for me, your session had a profound impact on me in the most beautiful and deep way, I felt feelings I had never allowed space to feel before and witnessed my younger self and held her with so much love. The flood gates opened for me after our session and my memories that have been blacked out from my memory have come back. I have had the space to sit with them and feel where they land in my body. This was a very powerful and healing experience. After our session I felt so calm, present and peaceful in my mind, like I was floating but grounded, like I was balanced it was incredible to experience. Joella I am so grateful beyond words for your work, for your soul, for your space, your energy.”

    — Zoe

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    “Sessions with Joella have been so potent and profound to say the least. Joella isn’t just any ordinary psychotherapist. The space she holds is full of unconditional love and deep compassion that is extremely rare. I feel beyond grateful & humbled. While I had many healings occurring throughout our sessions I now also have a much more deepened understanding on my coping mechanisms. Why and how they came about and what to do to dissolve them, practising using these tools in sessions. In many years of therapy and changes of healers and psychotherapists I feel so relieved to have found someone with such wisdom, tools and most importantly the biggest heart.”

    — Shae

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    “Joella, I want to deeply thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for the session you so gently and compassionately held for me. I was able to completely surrender and arrive to the most hidden places within myself and turn stuckness into softness. I’m always surprised by the many layers these energies hold; thank you for reminding me it is okay to revisit them. There can always be more to discover, more to unlock. Only with your level of compassion and non-judgement, can we arrive at those places. Thank you for guiding me there.”

    — Andrea

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    “Joella’s energy is so soft and gentle it allowed me to fully drop into the space of openness and deep surrender. She created a beautifully nourishing space to hold me in my vulnerability allowing me to fully be with my emotions and thoughts. I highly recommend Joella as a practitioner for people at all levels of their healing journey, she is so skilled at providing what is necessary for where you are within your journey!”

    — Elska

“The body has been designed to renew itself through continuous self-correction. These same principles also apply to the healing of psyche, spirit, and soul.”

Peter Levine