Jonathan Smith
Practical, down-to-earth counselling for life challenges
About Jonathan
Jonathan Smith is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. He is a BACP member and has six years of counselling experience. He draws on personal family experience and a background in IT to relate to practical life pressures.
Jonathan helps people dealing with addictions, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, and a wide range of emotional struggles. He also supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem issues, career decisions and life transitions.
Background and approach
His work includes concerns around intimacy, parenting and fatherhood issues, and patterns such as codependency and impulsivity. In sessions he aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk things through. He uses clear, straightforward language and focuses on what feels useful right now.
Sessions are collaborative - he listens first, then helps set simple goals and practical steps. Jonathan combines client-centred listening with tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. He also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and solution-focused strategies to build on small wins.
These approaches are used to suit the person rather than as a rigid plan. People looking for flexible contact options can meet him by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. He offers support for issues such as ADHD, compassion fatigue, eating and sleeping problems, anger, and coping after separation or loss.
The emphasis is on making change manageable and relevant to everyday life.
What Jonathan works with
How Jonathan works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online counselling
Client-centred therapy places the person and their experience at the heart of sessions, with the counsellor listening and reflecting so the client can make sense of feelings. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through difficult events or ongoing stress.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and anger by offering straightforward tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss options with the client and pick methods together based on needs, goals and preferences. That choice is revisited as progress is made so the approach stays relevant.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different situations. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats give flexibility for people balancing work, family or other commitments.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
