Jackie Garratt
A compassionate counsellor for clearer thinking
About Jackie
Jackie Garratt offers calm, practical support for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or major life changes. She introduces straightforward ways to understand difficult feelings and to take small steps toward feeling steadier. Jackie writes in a warm, direct way and focuses on what will help most right now.
Jackie uses everyday language to help people make sense of their experience. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build clearer thinking about what matters.
Background and approach
She combines talking work with practical tasks you can try between meetings. Her background includes work in community roles with children, adults and women who have experienced domestic abuse and childhood trauma. That experience informs how she notices patterns that began early in life and still affect the present.
Jackie is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is also a qualified life coach, which means she can blend coaching tools with counselling conversations when that feels useful. Therapy sessions are shaped around each person.
Jackie aims for a relaxed and non-judgemental atmosphere so people can speak honestly. Together, she helps clarify goals and find practical ways to manage triggers, compulsive thinking or sudden changes in mood. She has eight years of professional experience and additional post-qualification training to work with young people and survivors of sexual violence.
Jackie draws on person-centred ways of working and integrates approaches such as cognitive behavioural techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and solution-focused methods.
What Jackie works with
How Jackie works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and to take action in line with their values. It can help when avoidance, rumination or painful memories get in the way of living a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments. That approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and behaviours people want to change. Client-centred therapy offers a space where the counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person’s lead to build understanding and self-acceptance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jackie will talk through different methods and choose what fits the individual’s goals, needs and comfort level. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as progress or priorities shift.
Online sessions are flexible and can fit around busy lives. Video calls allow fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera or who have limited bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins or when a written record helps reflection. These options make it easier to keep continuity of support, manage appointments across different routines and use brief coaching-style check-ins between longer sessions.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
