Jonathan Stuart
Practical, respectful counselling for everyday struggles
About Jonathan
Jonathan Stuart is a counsellor who focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. He makes space for straightforward conversation and works to help clients build confidence and clearer direction in life. He offers a calm, non-judgemental approach.
Sessions aim to be respectful and sensitive to each person's situation. Jonathan will listen first, then tailor how he works to the concerns brought to counselling.
Background and approach
Jonathan draws on several approaches to shape sessions. He uses client-centred methods to follow what matters most to the client. He also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
He brings four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds NCPS credentials. That background includes supporting people with stress, anxiety, motivation, self-esteem, depression and coping with life changes. Jonathan also works with topics such as trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, anger and compassion fatigue.
He can also address areas like adoption and foster care, ageing issues, communication and commitment problems. In sessions he aims to be open and positive while tailoring conversations and plans to individual needs. Beginning therapy can feel daunting; he offers steady support and practical steps to help clients move toward a more manageable, satisfying life.
What Jonathan works with
How Jonathan works
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Sessions & fees
Therapy approaches that work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following what the client finds most important. In an online setting this often means sessions begin with the client's priorities and the counsellor reflects and clarifies to help people find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps people notice patterns of thinking and behaviour that make problems worse and try simple experiments to change them; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress management.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss different ways of working and together decide what fits the client's goals, preferences and day-to-day needs. That may mean blending methods and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face dialogue and visual cues while phone sessions can be useful with lower bandwidth or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging offer flexible ways to keep in touch between calls or to fit counselling around work and family 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
