Jacqueline Leydon , BACP

Jacqueline Leydon offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and major life changes. She writes directly from lived experience and aims to create a dependable space where people can speak honestly about what matters to them.

Jacqueline brings eight years of counselling work in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration, which shows she follows national professional standards. She draws on several approaches to match the needs of each person rather than using a single method for everyone.

In sessions she focuses on building trust and listening closely. Conversations cover what is happening now, how it connects to the past, and small steps that can ease daily life. Jacqueline often helps people with sleep problems, low mood, anxiety, and the emotional impact of trauma and abuse.

She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, and challenges linked to ADHD or autism. Practical topics such as work stress, anger and coping with change are included alongside deeper themes like attachment, abandonment and feelings of emptiness.

Jacqueline combines client-centred work with cognitive strategies and acceptance-based ideas to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to help people feel more in control and more hopeful about small changes.

If someone prefers a collaborative, down-to-earth counsellor who values honesty and steady progress, Jacqueline offers that approach while tailoring sessions to individual needs.

How Jacqueline’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action on what matters. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to clarify values and plan small steps that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying practical behaviour changes. In remote sessions CBT tools such as worksheets, thought records and behavioural experiments can be reviewed together and adapted between meetings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more secure ways of relating; this work can be explored in conversation and through reflective exercises during online sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline will talk with the person about problems, goals and preferences, and then try methods that suit their situation. She treats the process as collaborative and adjusts the focus as progress or new concerns emerge.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions remove the need for video and can fit a shorter break at work or less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between meetings or communicate when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy lives and changing schedules.