Jessica Sullivan, BACP

Jessica Sullivan is a BACP counsellor with 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier in their day to day lives. Jessica aims to help people notice patterns that hold them back and try new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.

She trained originally in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and often works in an open-ended way to look at long-standing issues that come from early life and attachment. For shorter-term work she uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help people set clear goals and move forward from a current problem.

Her background includes workplace counselling, so she understands how job stress and workplace incidents can affect wellbeing. Jessica also supports people dealing with bereavement, illness and the emotional aspects of long-term conditions such as diabetes and cancer.

She may use standard questionnaires such as the GAD-7, PHQ-9, HADS or IES-R during an initial assessment to get a clearer picture of current needs. These tools help shape a plan for therapy together.

Jessica has experience with trauma, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, eating problems, mood conditions and the knock-on effects of substance use or medication. She pays attention to cultural and ethnic context and to issues that arise in legal or workplace processes.

People who want a thoughtful, pragmatic counsellor to talk things through and try practical new approaches often find her style helpful.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Jessica works from a psychodynamic perspective and from a solution-focused stance. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how early relationships and patterns affect current feelings and behaviours, which can help with long-standing attachment issues and recurring relationship problems. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical goals and small changes that put a person on a different path, which can be useful for coping with life changes, stress and specific problems.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals and preferences and may combine open-ended exploration with focused goal work as appropriate. That way the plan reflects what the person wants to achieve and how quickly they want to work on it.

Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also offer a way to continue sessions after a workplace incident, during recovery from illness, or while living in a different part of the UK, subject to the therapist's scheduling and service terms.