About Jessica
Jessica Townsend is a counsellor who works with people facing stress, anxiety and related concerns. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through what feels hard right now. Jessica uses a personable style to help people notice patterns and try different ways of coping.
She draws on seven years of practice and uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions focus on building a trusting relationship first.
Background and approach
From there she helps clients explore how past experiences shape present feelings and behaviours, and what practical steps might help day to day. Jessica blends client-centred listening with techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches and attachment-based ideas. This often means naming unhelpful thoughts, practising new responses, and looking at how relationships affect mood and stress.
She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to address deeper relational patterns when that is helpful. People come for many reasons, including low mood, difficulties with self-esteem, grief, addictions, trauma, problems sleeping or eating, and stress linked to work or life change. She can also support those dealing with phobias, OCD-type worries, postpartum low mood, hoarding concerns and jealousy.
Sessions are offered in English in the United Kingdom and follow a straightforward format. Jessica aims to help clients develop clearer awareness, useful coping skills and practical next steps they can try between sessions.
How Jessica’s approaches translate to online therapy
Jessica uses client-centred methods that prioritise listening and understanding, which online sessions can deliver through careful, focused conversation. This approach helps people feel heard and make sense of difficult emotions even when not meeting in person.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a practical method that looks at thoughts and behaviours. Online CBT works well for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and unhelpful routines because it involves clear exercises, thought records and homework that clients can do between sessions.
Attachment-based ideas are used to spot how relationships affect feelings. Online work can include mapping relationship patterns, practising new ways of relating, and reflecting on how past experiences shape current reactions.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Jessica will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit. If something does not help, she adapts the plan and tries alternatives together.
Online sessions offer practical benefits: video calls let people see one another; phone sessions need less bandwidth; live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, childcare or travel and to use different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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