About Jacqueline
Jacqueline "Jacky" Ellis is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of practice. She holds BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and combines several therapy ideas to suit different needs. Jacky aims to make starting therapy less daunting and offers a calm, non-judgemental space to begin.
Jacky draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at early experiences and how they affect current feelings.
Background and approach
She also uses humanistic, client-centred approaches to help people reconnect with their sense of self and to work towards being more authentic. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical ways to change day-to-day patterns. Her work covers common concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem and addiction.
Jacky has experience supporting people through trauma and abuse, attachment challenges, and difficulties linked to adoption and foster care. She also supports those facing body image problems, chronic illness or pain, and relationship-related issues like communication and commitment worries. Sessions are conversational and focused on what the person wants to change.
Jacky aims to offer warmth and empathy while helping clients notice patterns and try manageable steps between sessions. She also volunteers at an addiction centre, which informs her practical understanding of substance-related struggles. The counselling process starts with understanding the person’s goals and building trust.
From there Jacky works with clients to set realistic steps, trying different approaches until a good fit is found.
How attachment, CBT and client-centred work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shaped current emotional patterns and trust. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practise new ways of relating through discussion and reflective exercises.Client-centred therapy focuses on empathy and helping the person feel heard. It involves open conversation and gentle support to uncover what matters most and to build self-acceptance and confidence.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests small changes in behaviour. Online CBT often uses structured conversations and short tasks between sessions to try out new ways of thinking and acting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will explore your needs, goals and preferences and will try different methods together to see what fits. That collaborative process means the plan can change as you learn what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals and can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video suits longer, face-to-face style conversations; phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited; live chat and messaging work for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring responsibilities or mobility needs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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