About Jackie
Jackie Garratt is a counsellor and life coach who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and everyday struggles. She aims to help people recover a sense of value and purpose. Jackie listens without judgement and helps clients find practical ways forward that suit their life.
She uses a warm, calm style to put people at ease. Sessions are flexible and tailored to the person, drawing on conversations that help clarify what is causing distress and what a better day might look like.
Background and approach
Jackie combines coaching tools with counselling to tackle unhelpful thoughts and limiting beliefs while working towards realistic goals. Her approach is person-centred, which means the client sets the pace and priorities. Jackie also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns of thinking, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values despite difficult feelings.
Solution-focused methods are used when clients want short-term, goal-driven work. Jackie has eight years of experience in community and support roles. Her background includes youth work, fostering and coordinating women’s services.
This has informed her work with people affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault, childhood trauma, chronic health conditions and neurodiverse presentations such as Autism and ADHD. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is recorded as BACP. Jackie can work with parents on parenting challenges and with people wanting to include faith in sessions if they choose.
Sessions are offered through a range of online formats to fit different needs and lifestyles.
Approaches and how they work online
Jackie often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and then choose actions that match their values. This can be useful for anxiety, stress and situations where avoidance keeps someone stuck. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at thinking and behaviour patterns that maintain problems, and uses practical exercises to change them, which helps with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jackie will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change as people learn what works best for them.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls are close to face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is good for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help people access consistent support from registered or accredited professionals across different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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