About Jessica
Jessica Townsend is a counsellor who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety and phobias. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical so people can talk things through without jargon. Jessica uses a warm, accepting style so clients feel heard and understood from the start.
She blends several approaches to suit each person rather than using a single method. That means sessions may include talking through past patterns, working on unhelpful thoughts, and practising new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Jessica aims to make therapy feel relevant to daily life and manageable for busy people. Jessica holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. She has seven years of experience working with concerns such as depression, grief, trauma, addictions and sleep problems.
Her listed additional focuses include compulsions and OCD, hoarding, jealousy, postpartum depression and issues linked to veterans and the armed forces. In sessions she pays attention to relationships and attachment patterns because these often shape how people cope now. She also uses mindfulness and brief hypnotherapy techniques when they fit a person's goals.
The tone is practical and collaborative – clients set goals and Jessica helps them track progress. Therapy is offered in English and is delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then book sessions that suit their schedule.
The subscription model for sessions can be cancelled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Jessica commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can help with anxiety, phobias, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people recognise and change recurring reactions in close relationships.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk through options during early sessions and adapt methods to match each person’s goals and preferences. This collaborative planning helps ensure the work feels relevant and practical for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people work more like an in-person session, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options add flexibility for people juggling work, family or other commitments and make it simpler to keep continuity between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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