David Jones
A calm person-centred counsellor
About David
David Jones offers calm, straightforward counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes. He is a BACP counsellor with six years of practice and a background volunteering for a bereavement charity. He speaks English and works with people across the United Kingdom and beyond.
Sessions focus on what the client needs right now and move at a pace they find comfortable. David uses a person-centred approach that puts the client’s experience at the centre of each session.
Background and approach
He listens with empathy and avoids judgement, helping people name what is troubling them. He can include other tools when helpful, such as cognitive-behavioural ideas to tackle patterns of thinking. People come to him for many concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting pressures, addictions and problems with eating or sleeping.
He also works with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, chronic illness, fertility and ageing matters. His style is warm and interactive. He draws on life experience from years spent working outside counselling before training, and on direct work with bereavement support.
Sessions aim to be practical as well as reflective, helping people try new ways of coping between meetings. Clients who prefer online contact can choose video, phone, live chat or text messaging. David supports international clients as well as people in the UK, and sessions are arranged around the client’s schedule.
What David works with
How David works
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Sessions & fees
Person-centred work online and practical session options
David primarily uses Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for depression, anxiety, grief and difficulties with self-esteem because it creates space to talk through what matters most.He can also integrate practical cognitive-behavioural ideas when patterns of thinking or behaviour are getting in the way. These tools might include simple experiments between sessions, or techniques to manage worry, sleep or unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with the client to agree what feels most useful, adapting methods to the person’s goals and preferences. This collaborative exploration helps shape the way sessions proceed over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer typing or want brief, ongoing support between longer appointments. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
