About Jack
Jack Kirton is a counsellor and psychotherapist who supports men aiming for greater confidence, clarity and practical competence. He presents himself as a mentor and performance coach alongside his counselling work. Jack holds NCPS as a listed credential and practises from the United Kingdom.
Jack describes a straightforward, action-orientated style. He helps people work out what brought them to therapy and plans steps they can take next. Sessions combine talking, reflective listening and practical strategies to test between appointments.
Background and approach
His background includes several years working with young people on mental health, school performance and social development. Jack reports extensive clinical hours and experience in multiple face-to-face settings before offering remote sessions by video, phone and live text chat. He uses person-centred ideas alongside cognitive behavioural methods, emotional regulation techniques and solution-focused coaching.
That mix is used to help clients set goals, try behavioural experiments, and notice how changes in action can shift thinking and feeling. Jack often works with issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, addictions, low self-esteem and ADHD-related concerns. He also lists additional focus areas including grief, chronic illness, body image and attachment difficulties.
His stated priority is helping people move toward a realistic vision of who they want to be. Jack aims to give space to be heard, offer practical tools when helpful, and hold clients accountable for the steps they choose to take.
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being heard and understood. It gives the client space to make sense of their experiences and decide what matters most, which can help with issues like low self-esteem and relationship decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) aims to link actions, thoughts and feelings. It uses short practical exercises and behavioural experiments to test new ways of coping with anxiety, stress, sleep problems and low mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in close relationships and how emotions shape interaction. It can be useful for people wanting to improve emotional connection, manage attachment concerns or address intimacy-related issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and current challenges and then agree a plan together. That plan can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, telephone, live chat or text messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video provides face-to-face interaction, phone can be quicker with lower bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging helps keep a record of reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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