Jeff Compton , NCPS

Jeff Compton is a counsellor with 46 years of experience who helps people with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, depression, anxiety and stress. He also supports people facing addiction, grief, body image and eating or sleeping problems. He works with issues related to parenting, self-esteem, bipolar difficulties and coping with major life changes. Jeff lists Women's issues among his focus areas and brings long experience to those concerns.

Jeff adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs. He treats people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. He also has experience working with people who have acted in harmful ways and will look at patterns behind those behaviours.

In sessions he aims to help people unpick repeating difficulties and find practical ways forward. That might mean learning new ways to handle upsetting thoughts, practising different responses in relationships, or exploring attachment and past hurts. He uses a mix of approaches tailored to the person rather than a single fixed method.

His practice draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused work, together with attachment-based and client-centred ways of talking. These provide tools for managing feelings, improving communication and rebuilding trust.

Jeff works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. He accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take action that matches their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress and moving through life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and gives practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions in close relationships and helps people understand and shift interaction patterns to improve connection and intimacy.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.

Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit therapy around work, travel or daily life while keeping focus on the practical steps you want to take.