Jeff Hutchens
Person-centred counsellor with CBT and ACT focus
About Jeff
Jeff Hutchens works from a person-centred approach that puts the client’s experience first. He combines Client-Centred Therapy with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people manage difficult feelings and make practical changes. Jeff uses everyday language and clear goals in sessions so conversations stay focused and useful.
He draws on seven years of experience as a counsellor and hypnotherapist and holds NCPS as a listed credential.
Background and approach
That background informs how he supports people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and depression. He also offers help around addiction, trauma and grief using techniques that aim to reduce distress and build coping skills. Jeff works with issues linked to relationships, intimacy and communication, including relationship coaching and confidence work.
He also supports people dealing with sleep or eating problems, career stress, compassion fatigue and life changes. Additional areas he notices often include ADHD, attachment and body image concerns. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Jeff listens carefully, helps identify what matters most, and then tries techniques that fit each person’s life. He also offers hypnotherapy when that is a suitable option and the person is interested. Clients can choose from video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
He accepts international clients and conducts work in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the Start Therapy button.
What Jeff works with
How Jeff works
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Sessions & fees
How ACT, CBT and Client-Centred Work Online
Jeff uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify values, and take small actions that match what matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going, and then tries practical exercises to shift those patterns. CBT is often used for stress, worry, sleep or low mood. Alongside these, Client-Centred Therapy provides a listening space where the person leads the conversation and is treated with respect and empathy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as you learn what helps. That process is collaborative and paced to suit the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection, or people who prefer not to speak aloud. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, travel or family routines while keeping sessions practical and focused.
| 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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 conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
