About Jessica
Jessica Sullivan is a pragmatic counsellor with 20 years' experience helping people make practical changes in their lives. She draws on a long clinical background to help clients notice patterns, try new ways of coping, and build on their resilience. Jessica is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration.
She offers straightforward support for a wide range of concerns including anxiety and stress. She originally trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and uses that approach to look at difficulties that may have roots in early life.
Background and approach
Jessica also offers brief, solution-focused work when a forward-looking, goal-based plan is more helpful. Sessions can include routine measures such as the GAD-7, PHQ-9, HADS or IES-R as part of an initial assessment. Jessica has experience as a workplace counsellor and understands how work and personal issues interact.
She can support people affected by workplace incidents, trauma, bullying or grievance processes. She also works with those facing bereavement, serious illness, and the emotional impact of chronic conditions such as diabetes and cancer.
Her clinical practice covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body image problems, self-esteem, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, and the effects of past abuse and attachment difficulties. Jessica is familiar with self-harm, suicidal ideation, addiction, and long-term mental health needs.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, people are invited to complete a short questionnaire and schedule an initial appointment according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Jessica uses psychodynamic therapy to look at how early experiences and patterns affect current feelings and relationships. This approach can help when long-standing issues, attachment concerns or repeated relationship problems are part of the picture.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy for shorter-term work. That method focuses on setting clear goals, identifying small changes that make a difference, and building practical steps to move forward from present concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then agree a plan that can include longer open-ended exploration or brief goal-led sessions. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are good for a traditional session feel, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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