About Mike
Mike Jackson is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of practice. He uses a person-centred, integrative style that aims to make people feel heard and respected. Mike works with adults and young people on a wide range of concerns, including stress and anxiety.
He combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness practice. He also draws on solution-focused techniques and creative methods to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what the person brings and on practical steps they find useful. Mike has worked in mental health services, charities and independent practice. His background includes supporting people with bereavement and those affected by traumatic loss, and he has experience supporting carers.
This range of settings informs a flexible, calm approach. He holds a Level 5 Diploma in Counselling and a Diploma in Supervision, and he is registered with the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society NCPS. He has additional training in grief work, trauma, mindfulness, suicide prevention and working with self-harm.
Online and telephone sessions are offered alongside face-to-face work in Somerset. People are invited to bring whatever they are finding difficult - from relationship and family issues to addiction, low self-esteem, depression or life transitions - and to work at a pace that suits them.
How Mike blends approaches for online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy is about being listened to without judgement and having space to talk through what matters most. It helps people who need a supportive environment to make sense of difficult feelings and decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thinking patterns and feelings and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress because it gives clear tools to practise between sessions.
Mike will work together with each person to find which approach fits best. He treats choosing methods as a joint step - discussing goals, preferences and what the person finds helpful, then adapting the mix of approaches over time.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, offering flexibility for different days and routines. Video calls are useful for a full conversational session, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can work for quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try different formats until the right fit is found.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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