Jessica Rigby
Person-centred counsellor offering open-minded support
About Jessica
Jessica Rigby trained as a counsellor as a mature student and now works from a person-centred perspective. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and has five years of experience supporting people with a wide range of concerns. She keeps sessions straightforward and warm.
Her manner is friendly, inquisitive and caring. She does not offer ready-made solutions but helps people talk through what matters to them and find their own way forward.
Background and approach
Jessica often supports people with anxiety, depression and stress. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, LGBT concerns, self-esteem and grief. Practical life changes, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and addictions are within her experience too.
She has worked with more complex presentations such as attachment issues, dissociation, personality difficulties and chronic illness. She is open-minded about sexuality and alternative relationships, including consensual non-monogamy and BDSM or kink, and will explore these topics without judgement. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person.
Jessica listens closely, reflects what she hears and asks helpful questions to deepen understanding. The focus is on your experience and what you want to change. People who choose her tend to want a calm, accepting space to sort through difficult feelings and decisions.
Her approach suits those who prefer to be treated as the expert on their own life while getting steady, compassionate support.
What Jessica works with
How Jessica works
Listed by Jessica among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred and solution-focused work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of sessions by focusing on their experience and pace. The counsellor offers empathy and reflection to help people understand their feelings and make choices that suit them; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, grief and self-esteem issues.Solution-Focused Therapy is practical and goal-oriented. It concentrates on small, achievable steps and what already works in someone’s life, which can be helpful for stress, coping with life changes, relationship difficulties and parenting concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy work. Jessica will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt methods as needed so sessions feel collaborative and personalised. Together they decide which ideas to try and how to measure progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used with lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible around work, family and daily life.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
