Jenny Cleary
Person-centred counsellor with creative focus
About Jenny
Jenny Cleary uses a person-centred, creative approach to help people feel steadier in their lives. She combines gentle care with clear direction and meets people where they are. Jenny works in ways that respect each person’s pace and preferences.
Jenny draws on nine years of experience and a background in nature and art to shape her practice. She blends client-centred work with approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and personal values rather than jargon. People come to Jenny for many concerns, including stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addiction, grief and coping with life changes. She also supports people navigating ADHD, bipolar mood issues, career strain, parenting pressures and compassion fatigue.
Additional interests include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care, body image and chronic health challenges. In a typical session Jenny helps clients identify what matters to them and try small, achievable changes. She often encourages bringing body awareness and creative expression into the work.
The aim is to help people reconnect with what brings them joy and to build routines that feel manageable. Jenny holds the NCPS credential, and she sees people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that suit their timetable.
What Jenny works with
How Jenny works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward what matters to them. It uses values clarification and small committed actions to support change in everyday life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and early bonds to understand current struggles and build healthier ways of relating. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, abandonment and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore a person's goals, preferences and life context and together decide which methods fit best. That collaborative planning can change as needs evolve during therapy.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easy access to these approaches. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, phone sessions suit those who prefer audio only, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- 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 of origin issues
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
