About Jacintha
Jacintha Canary is a counsellor with 25 years of experience in mental health and wellbeing. She lives in the United Kingdom and brings a personal, people-first approach to sessions. Her background includes work across family dynamics, trauma and anxiety.
Jacintha combines her faith-informed perspective with respect for all beliefs. She trained in person-centred counselling and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling. She also has a teaching qualification and sports coaching background, which inform her practical, grounded style.
Background and approach
Jacintha has completed additional courses in resilience, anger, forgiveness and conflict resolution. Her work often centres on stress, anxiety, grief and adapting to life changes. She supports people dealing with trauma, domestic violence history, abandonment and issues linked to moving between cultures.
Relationship concerns, intimacy, parenting and caregiver stress are also areas she helps people with. Jacintha uses a gentle, exploratory way of working. She does not give fixed answers but helps people to notice their own thoughts and sensations.
She draws on body-mapping methods from the QSL framework and the HEAL approach to help integrate past and present experience. Sessions mix practical tools with listening and reflection. Jacintha values resilience-building and coaching where helpful.
Her own experience as a client informs an open and authentic therapeutic relationship. She offers sessions in English and Afrikaans and works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally.
How her approaches work online and what to expect
Jacintha uses person-centred work to hold the focus on each person’s experience. This approach involves attentive listening, reflecting what is said and helping people find their own answers. It suits stress, anxiety and life-change conversations where the aim is clearer self-understanding.She also draws on mindfulness-based methods that help people notice bodily sensations and thoughts without judgement. These techniques can reduce reactivity and support coping with anxiety, grief and trauma symptoms.
Another strand she uses is solution-focused work that looks for small, practical steps forward. This is useful when someone wants short-term goals or clearer routines to manage stress and daily challenges.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best, based on needs, goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow fuller interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
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