Jennifer Haden, BACP

Jennifer Haden offers supportive, straightforward counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship difficulties. She writes in a warm, direct way and focuses on helping people feel heard and clearer about what they want. Jennifer uses practical talking and reflective work to help clients move forward at their own pace.

Jennifer works from a person-centred stance that aims to make each session feel respectful and non-judgemental. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to look at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Where it’s helpful she uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how the past influences current patterns.

Her background includes three years of professional experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts people internationally as well as in the United Kingdom.

Jennifer offers several ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options let people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments rather than the other way round.

She aims to be practical and compassionate in sessions, working with issues such as depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting strain, sleeping problems and low self-esteem. Jennifer also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, family of origin problems, codependency and communication issues.

People who choose her can expect a collaborative approach. Jennifer helps clients identify small steps and coping strategies to manage change, build resilience and regain a clearer sense of direction.

How Jennifer’s approaches work online

Jennifer uses person-centred, cognitive behavioural and trauma-focused ideas to guide online work. Person-centred therapy focuses on listening and acceptance, helping people speak openly about feelings and find their own way forward. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and offers practical tools to change them, useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Trauma-focused approaches look at how distressing events affect the body and mind and use structured methods to reduce their ongoing impact.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Jennifer works collaboratively to identify which methods suit each person's goals and preferences. She adapts her way of working over time, checking in and making changes as needed so therapy remains useful and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in during a break, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options add flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still focusing on meaningful change.