Janet Kwegan
Gentle, practical counselling for life changes
About Janet
Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with over 10 years' experience in NHS and charity settings. She has worked in hospices, bereavement services, perinatal mental health, cancer support, a women’s centre and a men’s counselling service. Janet draws on a range of therapeutic approaches to meet each person's needs in straightforward, practical sessions.
Janet adopts an existential way of working that focuses on how a person experiences life. She helps people look at relationships, identity, values and the choices that shape daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions are calm and non-judgemental, aimed at making sense of what feels confusing or painful. Her background includes work with grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, addictions and stress. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, sleeping and eating difficulties, and issues around self-esteem and career change.
There is additional focus on attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, caregiver stress, chronic illness and body image concerns. Janet uses methods from client-centred work, attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotion-focused practice where these help. She aims to match approach to the person, adapting tools to fit real life rather than following rigid steps.
The emphasis is on practical ways to cope alongside exploring deeper meaning. Sessions can help when life feels overwhelming, when grief or trauma colours everyday life, or when someone wants clearer direction. Janet offers a steady presence while people consider change, make decisions or recover from difficult events.
What Janet works with
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Sessions & fees
How Janet’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work pays attention to how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can be used to notice patterns in relationships and practise new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening and building understanding through the counsellor's non-judgemental presence. This approach works well online where time is given for someone to be heard and to reflect on their own experience.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. That can include short exercises between sessions and structured tools delivered during video or phone meetings. Janet will typically discuss which methods suit the person's situation and adapt them for remote work so the techniques fit everyday life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person's goals, preferences and current difficulties and suggest approaches to try. They can mix methods and adjust over time so the work stays relevant and helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that use worksheets. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and suit people who prefer not to be on camera. Messaging or live chat can serve as shorter check-ins or a way to keep momentum 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
