Janet Brown, BACP

Janet Brown is a counsellor with five years of experience offering practical, down-to-earth support. She greets people with warmth and respect and focuses on helping them make clearer choices about their life. Sessions are conversational and guided by what each person finds most helpful.

She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques, attachment-informed thinking and client-centred listening to untangle problems. Janet keeps language plain and works at a pace that suits the person in the room. Conversations focus on real-life situations like relationship stress, grief, sleeping problems, anxiety and low self-esteem.

Janet has a BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That means she follows professional standards for counselling practice in the UK. She also draws on training in mindfulness and work around domestic violence when those topics are relevant.

In sessions she helps people look at patterns that repeat and find small, practical changes. That might mean trying different ways of thinking, practising grounding or breathing, or telling the story of a difficult time to make sense of it. The focus is on skills people can use between sessions.

People come with many concerns including relationship and family stresses, trauma and abuse, eating and body image issues, addiction, parenting strains, and career or life changes. Janet also supports those dealing with grief, anger, sleep problems and attachment difficulties. Her aim is to help people feel clearer and more in control of their next steps.

Practical approaches for online counselling

Janet uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. CBT is often useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems because it breaks things down into small, manageable steps. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help when people repeat hurtful behaviours or struggle with commitment and trust.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, so therapy is collaborative and tailored to the person's needs.

Online sessions can be delivered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to book regular time and to use therapy in daily life.