About Jeff
Jeff Compton is a counsellor with many years of experience who helps people facing relationship problems, anxiety, depression and trauma. He works with issues such as intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain and self-esteem. Jeff also supports people dealing with complex situations like attachment struggles, adoption and foster care matters, and the effects of chronic illness.
Jeff uses a straightforward, respectful style. He listens first and tailors conversations to each person.
Background and approach
He aims to help clients untangle repeated patterns and find practical ways to move forward. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the person’s needs. His approach draws on methods that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, alongside attachment-based and client-centred ideas.
These methods shape how Jeff helps people notice difficult thoughts, understand relationship patterns and try new behaviours. With 46 years of professional experience and the NCPS credential, Jeff brings long-standing practice to his work in the United Kingdom. He accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
He can work with people affected by issues such as bipolar disorder, anger, codependency, and commitment or communication problems. People commonly come to Jeff feeling stuck after trying other solutions. He focuses on clear, practical conversation so people can test different approaches and learn what helps them cope and change.
Taking the first step is often the hardest part, and he aims to make that step easier to take.
Approaches in online counselling and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting caught by them, and then focus on actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety, avoidance or low mood get in the way of everyday life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new coping strategies. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses more on how emotions and attachment needs shape close relationships, helping people recognise patterns and build stronger emotional connections.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before, and then recommend ways of working together. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow a near face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can feel simpler, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and different time zones, while still using the chosen therapeutic methods.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 46 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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