Jean-Marie Lawrence, NCPS

Jean-Marie Lawrence helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or strained by everyday life. She makes space for calm conversation and practical steps. Her approach is gentle and straightforward, aimed at helping people find clarity and small, manageable changes.

She is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years' experience and holds NCPS. Jean-Marie draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs rather than using one fixed method. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on finding ways forward that feel doable.

Common concerns she works with include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and eating difficulties. She also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, relationship or family conflict, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Conversations may look at current problems and past patterns that keep repeating.

In sessions she combines listening with practical tools. That can mean noticing how relationships shape feelings, trying strategies to change unhelpful thoughts, or using motivational techniques to support new habits. Hypnotherapy may be offered as one option where it could help with focused change.

Jean-Marie aims to collaborate so people feel involved in planning their therapy. She encourages small experiments between sessions and checks progress along the way. People can expect a respectful, down-to-earth process that emphasises realistic steps toward feeling better.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Jean-Marie commonly draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. This approach can help when relationship patterns, trust or emotional connection are a concern. She also uses client-centred counselling, which puts the person's experience at the heart of each session and helps build understanding through empathetic listening. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is another practical strand she uses to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try small behavioural experiments to shift mood and anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jean-Marie will talk through options and tailor methods to each person's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means approaches may change as progress is made and as new priorities emerge.

Online therapy permits flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps, phone sessions can fit into busy days and need less bandwidth, while live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to arrange therapy around work, family and travel commitments and to keep momentum between meetings.