Janine Ellis
Skilful, empathetic counselling for adults
About Janine
Janine Ellis welcomes adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or life changes. She is experienced supporting people with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and identity. Janine also works with those facing family-related stress, fertility worries, and concerns linked to sexual orientation.
Janine holds BACP accreditation and brings a direct, calm presence to sessions. Janine trained through a Master’s in Integrative Counselling, awarded with distinction, and has three years of professional counselling experience.
Background and approach
Her background includes two decades working in the music industry, so she understands the pressures that come with creative and high‑demand careers and offers specialist support for musicians and industry workers. Her approach is relational and person-centred. That means she focuses on building trust and respect first, then uses the client’s goals to guide the work.
Janine adapts methods from therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas and client-centred practice to suit each person’s situation. In sessions she helps people name what matters to them, notice patterns that get in the way, and practice small changes they can use day to day.
She also addresses deeper material like attachment wounds, abandonment, guilt, shame and past abuse at a pace the client is comfortable with. Janine runs appointments by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. She is based in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Janine commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based approaches, and she also draws on client-centred practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on what matters to the person and on taking small, values-based actions even when thoughts or feelings are difficult. It can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves. It is useful for intimacy problems, abandonment fears and long-standing relational patterns. Client-centred practice prioritises the relationship and the person’s own pace, offering empathy and non-judgemental listening to help people find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janine will discuss options with clients and tailor sessions to their needs, goals and preferences. She treats the choice of methods as collaborative and adjusts the pace when exploring difficult experiences such as trauma, grief or shame.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and work more like an in-person session. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging allow regular check-ins, short reflections or a way to keep momentum between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit counselling around work, parenting and travel, while giving different ways to communicate depending on how someone feels that day.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
