Jacqueline Leydon
Supportive counsellor for trauma and life change
About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Leydon offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting strain, addiction or low self-esteem. She introduces a steady presence so people can talk about painful experiences and start to make small, practical changes. Jacqueline writes simply and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
Jacqueline has eight years' experience as a counsellor and holds BACP accreditation from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
She draws on personal experience of ADHD, autism, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence and loss to inform her empathy and listening. That background helps her understand why trust can be difficult for some people. Her approach is person-centred and integrative.
Sessions focus on the person's own goals, and Jacqueline mixes techniques from different methods to suit each situation. She uses skills from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns, abandonment and intimacy concerns.
Existential themes are used when people face big life questions, grief or feelings of emptiness. Jacqueline keeps language direct and practical so sessions feel useful from the first meeting. People commonly bring issues such as anger, sleeping problems, career worries, parenting challenges, codependency, dissociation or recovery from domestic violence.
Jacqueline also supports those navigating neurodivergence-related concerns like autism and ADHD. She aims to help people build clearer routines, steadier coping and better self-understanding.
What Jacqueline works with
How Jacqueline works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Jacqueline commonly uses acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas when working with people. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and avoidance. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current bonds and communication, and it can be useful for intimacy, abandonment or long-standing trust issues. Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Jacqueline will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will decide which approaches to try. That collaborative process means the plan can change as people learn what helps them most. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for short updates or when writing helps someone think things through. These options give flexibility for different days and moods while still focusing on steady progress.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
