About Jack
Jack English offers practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression and major life changes. He also helps when addiction, relationship strain, trauma, grief or career pressures feel overwhelming. Jack writes plainly and keeps sessions straightforward so people can focus on change rather than on jargon.
He brings ten years of experience to his counselling practice and holds a BA (Hons). Jack previously served in the British Army, including frontline deployments, and says that time shaped his resilience and direct style.
Background and approach
That background informs how he listens and responds, without assuming people need the same solutions. Jack follows a person-centred way of working, which means the client sets the pace and priorities while he supports and reflects what matters most. He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and practical steps to try between sessions.
Solution-focused ideas help keep sessions action-oriented and forward looking. When trauma is part of the story he uses trauma-focused approaches to help people manage reactions and regain a sense of control. Sessions aim to be calm, honest and goal-minded rather than heavy on clinical language.
Jack encourages small, realistic changes that add up over time. People who choose Jack can expect direct feedback, steady encouragement and a focus on building strengths. He works with individuals on parenting concerns, intimacy and family problems as well as career and first responder issues.
He speaks English and provides sessions online and by phone for people in the United Kingdom and beyond.
How Jack’s approaches work online
Jack uses a person-centred style that places the client’s priorities at the heart of each session. This approach is about listening, reflecting and helping people make sense of what matters most so they can choose next steps that feel right for them.He also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT provides practical exercises and short experiments to test new ways of thinking and coping, which suit problems like anxiety, stress and low mood.
Deciding which approach to use is a cooperative process. Jack will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt techniques to fit their needs. He aims to find a balance between listening and offering practical tools so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in, live chat suits brief, focused work and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between meetings. These options help people access therapy when travel, work or geography would otherwise make it hard.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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