About Janet
Janet Bellis is a counsellor who uses a pluralistic, person-centred style to support people dealing with anxiety and related worries. She holds a First-Class Honours degree in Counselling and the NCPS credential. She aims to make early sessions straightforward and practical so people feel heard and understood.
Janet adapts her work to each person. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Attachment-Based Therapy and client-centred methods as needed.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is causing distress now and on small steps that reduce symptoms over time. Her practice covers many common concerns including stress, depression, low self-esteem, grief, relationship issues, addictions, trauma and sleep problems. She also supports people facing life changes, career uncertainty, parenting stress and compassion fatigue.
Additional interests include attachment and body image issues, adoption and foster care matters, and ADHD challenges. Janet has five years of counselling experience and has worked with a major UK mental health charity. She has experience with people from varied backgrounds and different nationalities, and she pays attention to cultural and personal context when planning sessions.
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Janet aims to help people build coping skills, increase emotional resilience and make practical changes that fit their daily lives.
How Janet adapts proven approaches for online counselling
Janet often uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioural changes. CBT is practical and works well for anxiety, low mood, panic and sleep problems.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy where the focus is on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them. ACT can help people clarify values and take small steps towards a life they care about.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Janet will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to fit their goals, preferences and everyday life. That means trying a method and changing it if it does not feel helpful.
Online sessions can be easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let you use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be useful for shorter check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and practical for different needs and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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