Jayne Halliwell , BACP

Jayne Halliwell is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief or experiences of trauma and abuse. Jayne writes simply and directly: she has been in the client chair herself and understands how daunting the first step can feel.

Jayne aims to help people discover their own answers rather than telling them what to do. Sessions focus on listening closely, helping clients name what matters, and finding ways forward that fit each person’s life. She works with concerns including low self-esteem, motivation issues and problems linked to personality patterns.

Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment worries, communication and control problems, body image and codependency, and difficulties that arise during divorce or separation. Jayne also supports people managing caregiver stress, blended family tensions and the impact of domestic violence.

The counselling style is warm and non-judgemental. Jayne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape sessions around each client’s needs. People can expect practical conversation, reflective listening and task-focused ideas they can try between meetings.

Sessions are offered in English and Jayne accepts international clients. She asks new clients to begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then arranging sessions to suit their schedules.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online care

Jayne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. One common approach focuses on recognising and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, helping people with anxiety, low mood and motivation problems by breaking issues into manageable steps. Another approach concentrates on processing difficult past events and their impact now, which can help people who are coping with trauma, abuse or complicated grief.

Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Jayne treats this as a collaborative process - she will talk through options, check what feels helpful and adapt methods to match a client’s goals and preferences. Together they decide which techniques to try and review progress along the way.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels useful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text work well for shorter check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options help people access support from different places and at times that suit their lives.