Jessica Sullivan
Practical psychodynamic and solution-focused counsellor
About Jessica
Jessica Sullivan is a counsellor with 20 years of experience. She aims to help people find practical ways to change painful patterns and improve everyday life. Jessica brings a calm, thoughtful manner to sessions and focuses on what will help each person move forward.
Her training began in psychodynamic work, so she pays close attention to how earlier experiences affect current feelings and relationships. That approach is useful for people who want to understand long-standing patterns that come from childhood or past losses.
Background and approach
For shorter-term goals she also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, achievable steps and build momentum towards change. Jessica has worked as a workplace counsellor and understands how job stress, bullying or a traumatic incident at work can affect wellbeing. She also supports people dealing with illness, including emotional responses to cancer and the challenges around managing diabetes through lifestyle change.
In assessment she may use standard measures such as the GAD-7, PHQ-9, HADS or IES-R to get a clearer picture of current needs. These tools help shape a plan together and track progress over time. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, eating-related difficulties and compassion fatigue.
Jessica aims to work with each person respectfully and practically to find ways forward.
What Jessica works with
How Jessica works
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Sessions & fees
How psychodynamic and solution-focused work translate online
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past experiences and early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour. Online this can involve talking through life stories, noticing repeated patterns and linking those patterns to present difficulties such as attachment, grief or long-standing relationship problems.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, practical steps that create change. In remote sessions this approach sets clear short-term goals, highlights existing strengths and tries out simple experiments between meetings to build momentum and confidence.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica will discuss goals and preferences and suggest whether a longer psychodynamic route or a shorter solution-focused plan might suit. The plan can be adjusted over time as needs and priorities become clearer.
Online therapy is practical and flexible. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions suit people who need a lower-bandwidth option or a quick check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for brief reflections, day-to-day support and when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, care duties and busy lives.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
