Janet Kwegan , BACP

Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with ten years' experience working across health and community settings in the United Kingdom. She has supported people through grief, long-term illness, perinatal difficulties, relationship challenges and a range of mental health concerns. Janet holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as her professional credential.

She has worked in the NHS, a women’s centre, a hospice, a bereavement agency, a perinatal mental health charity, a cancer support centre and a men’s counselling service. That breadth means she is used to different kinds of distress and life change. Janet draws on what has helped others while tailoring the work to each person who comes to see her.

Her style is rooted in an existential outlook. She invites people to look at how they experience the world, without judgement, and to consider their relationships, identity, values and choices. Janet aims to create a calm space where people can make sense of whatever is troubling them.

She also uses approaches such as cognitive behavioural ideas, client-centred methods and attachment-focused thinking. These are woven into sessions to address practical problems as well as deeper patterns in relationships and self-image. Janet often works with issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, fatigue and difficulties around intimacy and identity.

Janet speaks English and Yoruba and is able to work with people in different countries. She emphasises a collaborative process where goals are agreed together and therapy is shaped to a person’s day-to-day life and needs.

How Janet’s approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape the way people connect and feel safe with others. Online sessions can help identify patterns in attachment and offer ways to try new ways of relating. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being heard and understood; the counsellor offers empathic listening so people can find their own answers and gain clarity on what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, works with thoughts, feelings and behaviours to reduce unhelpful patterns and build practical coping skills for anxiety, low mood and stress.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Janet will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and day-to-day life and then agree which methods to emphasise. She adapts the pace and tools as the relationship develops so the work stays relevant and achievable.

Online therapy using video, phone, live chat or text messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can provide shorter check-ins or written reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for different schedules and practical needs, while keeping the focus on the therapeutic work.