About Jean
Jean Van Slyke is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach to help people facing stress and anxiety. She holds BACP accreditation and works from the United Kingdom. Jean aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, non-judgemental space to talk about what is worrying you.
Jean focuses on common life challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief and coping with addictions. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ongoing struggles with sleep or eating.
Background and approach
Practical worries like parenting strain, work stress and compassion fatigue are part of her day-to-day work. Her style is down-to-earth and conversational. Sessions start by listening to what matters most to the person and then setting small, achievable goals together.
She uses solution-focused ideas to identify what helps now, and motivational interviewing to encourage change when people feel stuck. Jean has eight years of experience in therapeutic work. Her background includes helping people manage chronic health challenges, attachment and abandonment issues, and the emotional impact of adoption and foster care.
She is also familiar with concerns connected to autism, avoidant personality traits and blended family dynamics. Sessions are offered in English and Jean is able to work with clients internationally. She offers a supportive environment for people who want straightforward, practical help to reduce anxiety and regain more control over daily life.
How Jean’s approaches work online
Jean draws on client-centred therapy to create a listening space where a person’s own needs lead the work. This approach focuses on understanding your experience and helping you feel heard so you can think more clearly about next steps.She also uses solution-focused therapy to find practical changes that make a difference quickly. That can mean identifying small adjustments to daily routines, sleep or communication that reduce stress and anxiety in the short term. Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels uncertain about change; it helps people explore their own reasons and build commitment at their own pace.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the therapy. Jean will talk with clients about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods that suit the person and adapt the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy or geographically distant people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and text-based messaging supports shorter ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical steps to reduce anxiety and build coping skills.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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