Jo Paschali

Biography

Joanna Paschali is a Recovery Coach and Mentor with over 10 years’ experience supporting people to make meaningful and sustained change in their lives. Alongside her work as a recovery and life coach, Joanna has a background in pharmacology and brings a strong understanding of the complex interaction between physical health, mental health and behavioural change.

Joanna’s work is informed by both professional experience and her own lived experience of recovery. She understands how difficult it can be to move from insight to action, particularly when eating disorder patterns feel familiar, protective or deeply embedded. Her role is to offer compassionate, practical and structured support that helps clients translate the goals of therapy into everyday life.

Recovery coaching can be particularly helpful alongside clinical treatment, providing between-session support and helping clients build consistency, accountability and confidence in the real world. Joanna supports clients with areas such as meal support, managing food-related anxiety, reducing avoidance and compensatory behaviours, developing recovery-focused routines, and navigating high-risk or triggering situations.

A central part of Joanna’s approach is helping clients build resilience and reconnect with a sense of identity beyond the eating disorder. She supports people to strengthen self-esteem, develop emotional awareness, practise assertive communication, set boundaries and manage interpersonal difficulties. Her work is practical and collaborative, with a focus on building skills that can be used outside the therapy room.

Joanna can also support clients in occupational, educational and family contexts, helping them to communicate their needs, prepare for key conversations and maintain recovery-oriented goals in day-to-day life. Where appropriate, she may also draw on broader coaching tools, including confidence-building, life and career coaching, relapse prevention planning and the development of sustainable coping strategies.
Joanna brings warmth, authenticity and hope to her work. Having experienced recovery herself, she is able to model that sustained change is possible, while remaining sensitive to the complexity, ambivalence and courage that recovery often involves.