About Jareeda
Jareeda Walters-Leatherbarrow is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, family conflict, grief, low self-esteem and life changes. She holds a BACP credential and brings three years of professional practice alongside a decade of informal mental health support. Jareeda aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and straightforward.
Her approach is warm and person-focused. She creates space for clients to talk through what matters to them, without judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to help people feel more confident and better able to handle everyday pressures. Jareeda uses a mix of practical and relational methods. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to look at unhelpful thought patterns.
She also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ways of working to attend to how relationships and feelings shape experience. She has worked with people facing a wide range of issues, including abandonment and attachment concerns, body image, chronic illness or pain, codependency, communication problems, and divorce or separation.
She also supports those coping with fertility issues, eating and food-related concerns, and changes in identity or life stage. Sessions are offered in English and Jareeda is able to see international clients. Her practice emphasises collaboration - clients and therapist decide together what feels most useful.
She encourages small steps that build longer-term change.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships influence current connections and feelings. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and builds more helpful ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours; it offers practical tools to reduce anxiety and manage stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centres on identifying and naming emotions and then using that awareness to change how people respond in important relationships.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and together they will try approaches that feel most helpful. Sessions often blend methods so people get both practical tools and space to process feelings.
Online therapy with Jareeda is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be shorter or fit into a busy day without needing a camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, reflection between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy going around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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