- Person-centred focus
- Integrative approaches
- Warm supportive care
About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Leydon welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or exhausted by life’s challenges. She speaks plainly and listens closely, aiming to make the first steps feel manageable. Jacqueline uses a gentle, person-centred approach that keeps the client’s experience at the heart of each session.
She draws on eight years of counselling practice and works as a Person-Centred Integrative Counsellor. That means she focuses on building a genuine, non-judgemental relationship and adds ideas from other approaches when they might help. Her lived experience with ADHD, autism, trauma, abuse, addictions and loss shapes how she understands and responds to concerns.
Jacqueline supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy-related difficulties. She also helps with parenting worries, sleep problems, anger, grief, career stresses, and issues linked to attachment and abandonment. She works with people affected by domestic violence, divorce and separation, and those coping after disasters.
Her practice includes methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, attachment-based thinking and existential ideas alongside a client-centred core. Sessions aim to increase self-understanding, reduce painful patterns, and find practical ways to cope day to day. Jacqueline encourages clients to set goals that feel meaningful to them.
To begin, she asks people to use the site process to match and book a first appointment. Jacqueline writes in a warm, grounded way and offers supportive, straightforward counselling for people ready to work through difficult life experiences.
How these approaches work in online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of sessions, focusing on empathy, acceptance and a genuine connection to help people feel heard and understood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that align with their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Attachment-Based ideas explore patterns in close relationships and how early experiences affect trust and connection, helping with abandonment, intimacy and communication struggles.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The counsellor will talk with the client about their goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods, reflect on what helps, and adapt the work so it fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
If you are considering online counselling, check the current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by avoiding travel, allowing a shorter check-in during a break, or choosing phone-only time when camera use is difficult. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists, can translate person-centred and ACT practices into online sessions so people can build clarity, reduce unhelpful patterns and practise new ways of coping from wherever they join the session.
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Experience
8+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues can be brought to counselling here?
Jacqueline works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting worries, grief, sleep problems and ADHD-related challenges.
How would you describe the counselling style?
The counselling is person-centred and integrative, so sessions focus on building a genuine, non-judgemental relationship and drawing on useful techniques from other approaches as needed.
What experience does the counsellor have?
She has eight years of counselling experience and brings personal lived experience with ADHD, autism, trauma, abuse, addictions and loss into her work.
Is Jacqueline formally registered and where does she practise?
She is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients join sessions?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin the process of booking?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.