Jennie Saunders Registered Member MBACP Snr Accred, UKRCP Reg

About me

Asking for help is not a statement that you cannot cope. It is a firm decision to take control and begin to understand your distress.  I offer you a safe and supportive space in which we can explore what it is that troubles you.

Who am I
I am a Senior Accredited/Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and a member of the UK Register of Independent Counsellors.

Throughout my life I have always worked closely with people in many different fields. For the past 23 years, as a counsellor and psychotherapist, I have worked within Mental Health, a G.P Practice, with the families of drug users, as staff counsellor for a Hospice and in the workplace. I now work mainly as a private practitioner taking referrals from individuals who contact me privately and I also take formal referrals from the NHS, Education and am the in-house staff counsellor for a special school and various companies. 

What do I do
Counselling is a talking therapy and through a skilled process of listening and responding I will help you to explore the issues that are troubling you. Throughout your counselling with me, confidentiality will be of the highest priority and I will work always toward helping you to feel safe, respected and heard. I will endeavour to be non-judgemental and offer you a supportive relationship in which we can explore the best way forward for you.

You may want to work with clearly defined issues, for which short-term solution focused counselling could be appropriate. Alternatively you may want to have the opportunity to explore the issues that are troubling you in greater depth. This may mean re-visiting past experiences and influences that could be affecting your present life and have implications for your future. This longer term counselling promotes deeper understanding of yourself and the ways you interact with the world and those around you. Whether your counselling is short term or long, there is nearly always an element of the work which looks to the future and at ways to make positive changes in your thoughts and behaviour.

My counselling model is Integrative (humanistic). This means that, of the various different counselling approaches I trained with, I now use whichever combination suits the needs of my individual client.

I work with people of all ages and from all walks of life. I also work with couples.