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Jo Bisseker Barr

@writeyourmindwithjo

Therapist and author writing from the New Forest on what it is to be human and what I’ve learnt from 26 years working with clients. Author of “What Would Jo Say?”, a weekly Problems Page where readers dilemmas are responded to.