Jacintha Canary, BACP

Jacintha Canary brings 25 years of counselling and wellbeing experience to her work in the United Kingdom. She is a South African immigrant and a practising Christian, and she welcomes people from all faiths and none. Her style is gentle and collaborative. She focuses on helping people find balance and healthier ways of living.

Jacintha helps with stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, eating concerns and body image. Practical life challenges such as career change, parenting strain, caregiving stress and adapting after moving countries are included in her work.

Her method is person-centred counselling, which means she follows each person's pace and priorities rather than giving prescriptive answers. She also uses mindfulness techniques to build present-moment awareness and solution-focused work to set clear, achievable steps. For trauma-related issues she draws on trauma-focused practices and parts work through Internal Family Systems ideas.

Jacintha has a postgraduate diploma in person-centred counselling and is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has additional certificates in community leadership, resilience, conflict resolution and a QSL body-mapping framework that supports self-exploration and healing.

Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans. Her approach blends practical tools with reflective listening so people can navigate difficult feelings and rebuild everyday routines. She aims to walk alongside clients as they move toward steadier, more workable lives.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Jacintha works primarily from a person-centred base, which focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person in front of her. In an online session she will use open questions, reflective listening and gentle prompts to help you name concerns and priorities. Mindfulness methods teach simple awareness skills that can be practised during video or phone sessions to reduce overwhelm and ground attention. Solution-focused work concentrates on small, concrete steps and clear goals so progress can be tracked between contacts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacintha will discuss options with each person and decide together what feels most helpful. That collaborative process takes into account the issues you bring, your personal preferences and what you want to achieve in therapy.

Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues and keep a face-to-face rhythm. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit more easily into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging suits quick check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer not to use audio or video. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and to work around busy or changing schedules.