Janis Sims
Compassionate client-centred counselling for real-life struggles
About Janis
Janis Sims uses a client-centred style to help people feel heard and understood. She works with stress, anxiety and trauma, and supports people facing parenting challenges. Janis combines a steady, respectful approach with practical tools to build confidence and motivation.
Janis has six years of professional experience in therapeutic work across the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation, which means she meets the standards set out by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
She offers services in English and Spanish and accepts international clients. Her practice pays attention to emotional safety and steady progress. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her.
She helps people identify strengths, spot unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. Janis draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to support clearer emotional expression in close relationships.
Client-Centred Therapy guides the way she listens and responds in sessions. Common concerns she addresses include low self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, career stress and mood disorders. She also works with adoption and foster care questions, attachment and autism-related issues, chronic illness and addiction concerns.
Getting started is straightforward: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions via the platform. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time and the cost varies with location and therapist availability.
What Janis works with
How Janis works
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Listed by Janis among the ways they work.
Listed by Janis among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Janis's approaches work online
Janis uses Client-Centred Therapy to prioritise listening and understanding. This approach focuses on the person's own goals and pace, helping them feel accepted and able to explore what matters most. It is useful for building self-esteem and clarity about next steps.She also draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, which teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and reducing self-destructive patterns. DBT can help when anxiety, mood swings or difficulty tolerating stress make daily life hard. Emotionally-Focused Therapy complements these methods by helping people name and share painful emotions with others, which can improve connection and intimacy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janis will discuss different methods with the person and decide what fits their goals, preferences and situation. The choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video suits longer conversations and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
