About Jenny
Jenny Cleary is a counsellor who blends a person-centred outlook with practical therapies to help people facing stress and anxiety. She works in a gentle but direct way and matches the pace to each person. Jenny draws on nine years of experience and holds NCPS as a professional credential.
She begins by helping people reconnect with what matters to them. Sessions often focus on values, small behaviour changes, and clearer choices.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and grounded, with practical steps to try between meetings. Jenny uses tools from cognitive behavioural therapy to work on unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to explore values and build meaningful actions.
Elements of attachment-focused work and dialectical skills are added where they suit the person. Her practice is adaptable and creative. She welcomes different ways of working, including talking about body-based experiences and using artistic or nature-based ideas when helpful.
The aim is to help people feel more settled and more like themselves. People come for a wide range of concerns, including relationship strain, grief, low mood, trauma, addictions, sleep problems, parenting stress, ADHD, and career issues. Jenny aims to provide a steady presence while helping people take manageable steps forward.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online. The style is supportive, practical, and focused on helping people live in line with their values and priorities.
Approaches that suit online counselling and life stress
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and to take small, meaningful steps towards those values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and when people feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early patterns of relating affect current relationships and emotional responses, helping people understand connection and trust issues. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Jenny will talk through different methods and help decide what fits the person's needs and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses. Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a break from work or need less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to use therapy around daily life and commitments.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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