About Jackie
Jackie Kenworthy is a counsellor with 25 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are coping with stress, anxiety and life changes, and she supports those facing relationship and parenting challenges. Jackie aims to make the first steps feel less daunting and encourages clients to take things at their own pace.
In sessions she creates an open, non-judgemental space where people can talk about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Jackie uses a client-centred stance to listen and reflect, and combines practical tools from cognitive behavioural approaches when helpful. She also draws on emotion-focused and mindfulness practices to help people notice and work through painful emotions. Her experience includes working on career difficulties, grief, addictions and compassion fatigue.
Jackie also supports those dealing with eating or sleeping problems, ADHD-related concerns and complex relationship patterns such as attachment and abandonment issues. She has additional focus on areas like body image, communication problems and blended family challenges. Jackie holds the NCPS credential and practises within the UK.
Sessions can include discussion of practical coping strategies, skills for managing distress and ways to improve communication in close relationships. She encourages a collaborative approach, tailoring techniques to what feels useful for each person. Beginning therapy can feel worrying.
Jackie acknowledges that and aims to make the process straightforward. She guides clients through small, manageable steps towards clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping.
Approach-focused online counselling and flexible sessions
Jackie combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural and dialectical strategies. Client-centred therapy means the counsellor listens closely and reflects what matters to the person, helping them feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at unhelpful thinking and practical ways to change thoughts and behaviours that fuel anxiety and stress. Dialectical behaviour therapy adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication, which can help with relationship strain and intense emotions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jackie will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and they will decide which methods to try first. The process is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lives and rhythms. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while using the approaches that best match your concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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