Joanne Maughan

Joanne Maughan is a highly skilled and supportive counsellor working with clients across a broad range of presenting concerns. Joanne has extensive experience working with people and brings deep empathy, lived experience, and grounded insight to every session. She offers a calm, steady presence and creates a warm, welcoming environment that helps clients feel understood and supported from the moment they meet her. Her background as a trained Crisis Support Worker enables her to remain confidently calm and centred, even when clients feel overwhelmed or unsure where to begin.

Joanne is passionate about supporting clients through life’s pivotal transitions — including relationship breakdowns, identity shifts, grief and loss, career change, stress, emotional overwhelm, and periods of personal uncertainty. She works with adults, adolescents, couples, and families, offering a compassionate space to explore challenges, gain clarity, and rebuild confidence. Her style is person-centred, trauma-informed, and holistic, blending supportive guidance with practical tools that help clients make meaningful and lasting change. Joanne gently encourages reflection, insight, and emotional awareness, while also helping clients take clear, empowered steps toward the life they want.

Her therapeutic approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed Therapy, Person-Centred Therapy, Strengths-Based Counselling, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and psychoeducation. Drawing from her extensive experience in crisis work, life coaching, and emotional wellbeing, Joanne helps clients reconnect with themselves, strengthen resilience, and move forward with clarity and purpose. Clients often describe leaving sessions feeling calmer, more grounded, inspired, and motivated to take meaningful steps in their own lives. Joanne offers counselling from a calm, welcoming space and is committed to supporting clients whatever they are facing, helping them find direction, confidence, and a renewed sense of wellbeing and purpose.

• Master Practitioner of Life Coaching
• Diploma of Counselling
• Australian Counselling Association Registered Counsellor
• Trained Crisis Support Worker & Psychological First Aid