Janine Ellis, BACP

Janine Ellis offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief or major life changes. She is named at the start of a session and focuses on helping people feel understood and less alone. Janine uses straightforward conversation to help clients make sense of difficult feelings and take small, manageable steps forward.

Janine is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and she has three years' experience. She works with a wide range of personal concerns including trauma and abuse, self-esteem, intimacy and LGBT issues. Her practice also addresses more specific worries such as fertility concerns, body image, isolation, and the emotional fallout of divorce and infidelity.

Her style draws on several psychotherapeutic approaches and centres the relationship between counsellor and client. Sessions aim to be non-judgemental and collaborative, with work shaped by what the client needs. Janine may use mindfulness, attention to attachment patterns, and acceptance-based ideas to help people manage difficult thoughts and feelings.

Janine has a background outside mental health in the music industry, which she says gives her insight into the pressures faced by musicians and industry workers. That experience informs her sensitivity to different work cultures and creative lives.

People can expect practical conversation, reflective listening and focused exercises when appropriate. Janine adapts the pace and tools to each person's situation, helping them build awareness and make choices that fit their life.

Approaches you can try in online sessions

Janine often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections, which can help with intimacy, trust and communication problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Janine works together with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful. She adjusts tools and pace based on the client's goals, preferences and the issues they bring to sessions.

Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper work, phone can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and busy days, and let people keep contact when travel would be difficult.