Supporting Your Well-Being
If you’re struggling with mental or emotional health difficulties, we can help.
Supporting Your Well-Being
If you’re struggling with mental or emotional health difficulties, we can help.
About: Joanna Baker HG Dip.P. MHGI SFHEA
Joanna is a qualified and highly experienced psychotherapist who has helped many hundreds of individuals move forward from periods of difficulty in their life. With extensive experience working with all forms of emotional distress, Joanna always strives to ensure that alongside specific work carried out during appointments, clients have a firm foundation of understanding and a set of tools to continue to maintain their own emotional health proactively in the future.
As well as her therapeutic practice Joanna is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), an advanced level of professional standing that evidences expertise in teaching and learning in higher education. She has had thousands of hours in the classroom teaching and training students and staff. She and her team offer student mental health and wellbeing training, psychoeducation and mediation services to the higher education sector. Joanna works with Student Minds, the UK's student mental health charity and is an assessor for the University Mental Health Charter.
Returning to her roots Joanna is a senior tutor and assessor on the Human Givens Diploma in Psychotherapy, Head of Supervision for the Human Givens College and hosts their podcast.
In 2021 Joanna was appointed as a director of One Step Borders, a charity that supports young people in the Scottish Borders experiencing emotional and/or mental health challenges.
In her spare time she loves walking, running, sailing and pretty much anything that gets her out in nature. She is also a qualified yoga teacher.
Joanna holds an Enhanced DBS certificate and is registered with the HGI, PSA and ICO.
