About Jackie
Jackie Garratt is a counsellor and life coach with eight years’ experience supporting people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She focuses on helping people regain a sense of value and purpose. Jackie listens without judgement and works alongside clients to find practical ways forward.
She offers calm, down-to-earth support and adapts each session to fit the person in front of her. Conversations aim to build understanding of what someone is feeling and why those patterns have developed.
Background and approach
Sessions can include coaching tools when people want to address mindsets and limiting beliefs as well as counselling methods to work through painful memories or persistent worry. Jackie uses a person-centred foundation alongside approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. That blend lets her balance emotional exploration with practical steps to reduce distress.
Sessions often focus on coping strategies, managing triggers, and breaking cycles of rumination that keep anxiety and low mood active. Her background includes work in community roles supporting children, young people and adults. Past roles include youth and support work, foster caring and coordinating women’s services for people affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence.
That experience informs her approach to trauma, attachment and parenting concerns. Jackie is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
How Jackie blends approaches for online support
Jackie draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT supports taking values-led action even when anxiety or fear is present and can help with long-standing worry or avoidance.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test them with real-life experiments. CBT offers clear strategies for reducing panic, rumination and low mood by changing behaviours and thoughts in small steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jackie collaborates with each person to agree what feels most useful, adjusting methods as needs and goals become clearer. That means sessions may blend exploration, practical tasks and short coaching-style exercises depending on what helps most.
Online therapy with Jackie is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps rapport and working through emotions. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging suit people who prefer written exchanges or want to reflect between messages. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life, while keeping continuity of care with registered professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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