Jareeda Walters-Leatherbarrow , BACP

Jareeda Walters-Leatherbarrow is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, family issues, grief, low self-esteem and big life changes. She holds BACP registration and brings three years of professional practice plus many more years of informal support experience. Jareeda aims to make it easier to talk about hard things and to find practical ways forward.

She takes a person-centred approach in sessions, giving space for clients to say what matters to them. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at helping people feel more in control. Jareeda uses a mix of approaches to suit different problems and personalities rather than one fixed method.

Clients can expect a calm, non-judgemental atmosphere where thoughts and feelings are heard. Jareeda works to help people recognise patterns that cause distress and to build skills for coping day to day. She also pays attention to how early relationships and attachment can shape current difficulties.

Her work covers many concerns beyond the main issues listed, including abandonment, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, chronic pain, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and fertility-related distress. She also supports people through divorce, separation and family of origin issues.

Jareeda welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and aims to tailor sessions to each person's cultural context. Practical tools and small experiments between sessions are often used to test changes and build confidence.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online counselling

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviours. Online sessions can use that lens to look at patterns in relationships and to try new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-centred counselling puts the person's experience at the centre and uses empathetic listening to help people find their own answers; this suits video or phone sessions where conversation and presence matter. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to change them; it often involves simple exercises or experiments that can be set between online sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to use attachment-oriented reflection, client-centred dialogue, CBT techniques or a mix of these methods to meet each person's needs.

Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access. Video calls suit longer, conversational sessions, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or variable routines while still using the chosen therapeutic approaches.