About Jacqueline
Jacqueline "Jacky" Ellis is a counsellor with a degree and three years of practice. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and offers compassionate support for stress and anxiety. Her work also covers addictions, trauma, grief and low self-esteem.
Jacky draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking and try small behaviour changes.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred ways of working that focus on listening and helping people make sense of their own goals. Her background includes volunteering at an addiction centre, which gives practical experience with people managing substance use concerns. She also has training related to adoption and foster care issues and supports people coping with attachment and belonging questions.
Sessions are aimed at practical change as well as emotional understanding. Jacky aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people can speak openly about what feels hard. She pays attention to early experiences and how they shape current relationships and patterns.
People who connect with her often want to reduce anxious hours, steady difficult emotions, understand relationship patterns, or work through loss. Jacky helps set small, realistic steps and reviews progress together so work feels manageable and relevant.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and reactions. Online conversations can help identify repeating patterns in how people seek comfort or distance themselves, and then try different ways of relating in day-to-day life.Client-centred therapy focuses on warm listening and helping the person find their own answers. In remote sessions this means the counsellor reflects what is said, asks gentle questions, and supports people to set goals that feel right for them.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps spot unhelpful thoughts and test small changes in behaviour. Online tools like worksheets and short homework tasks can fit easily between sessions to build new habits.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss options, try things out, and check what helps most. Plans are adjusted as goals change so work stays practical and personalised.
Online formats - video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging - give flexibility. Video works well for a fuller conversation, phone can be easier if bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter ongoing contact. These choices make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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