About me
You are worth the time it takes to understand.
When life feels difficult, your own needs can become lost beneath everything you have learned to carry. You may know something needs to change without knowing where to begin or have explained what hurts without feeling that anyone quite grasped why it matters.
I'm Jack, a BACP Registered Counsellor and Trainee Counselling Psychologist, offering humanistic therapy in York and online. I bring psychological curiosity, lived understanding and a warm, open presence. I'm interested in the detail that gets lost in “I'm fine”, the feelings that seem to contradict one another and the hopes you may hesitate to take seriously.
What Might Bring You to Therapy?
You may be navigating anxiety, low mood, burnout or persistent self-criticism. Perhaps relationships feel strained, you're grieving, caring for someone with dementia or facing difficult changes. I also work with trauma, including sexual trauma and difficult childhood experiences, alongside shame, addiction, dissociation and ways of coping that no longer help.
Painful experiences can change the way you see yourself: I should have known. I should have responded differently. I should be over this by now. They may influence what you believe you deserve, how readily you trust and whether your needs feel legitimate.
My Approach to Humanistic Therapy
My person-centred experiential approach is grounded in attunement and honest dialogue, with room for humour as well as difficult feelings. I want you to feel able to finish the sentence you would usually soften or say, “Actually, that isn't how it is for me.”
Sometimes, a moment worth exploring arrives almost unnoticed. You say something painful, then laugh. You begin to express frustration, then apologise. With your agreement, we can pause and become curious about what is happening.
Your experience of our relationship deserves the same care as the experiences you bring to it.
My Professional & Lived Experience
My professional background spans NHS counselling, social prescribing and peer support with York Mind within the pioneering YorCommunity Wellbeing Hubs, alongside volunteering with Samaritans.
This work is personal to me. I have lived through trauma and abuse, including the hurt of not being believed when I spoke about it. In the aftermath, I began to distrust myself. Addiction and profound despair became part of my life before I began my recovery. These experiences inform my sensitivity to struggles hidden beneath apparent capability and to what it takes to seek support when speaking before has left you feeling more alone.
My experience informs the care I bring; yours shapes the work we do.
Training, qualifications & experience
Current Doctoral Training
- Trainee Counselling Psychologist - Doctorate of Counselling Psychology (DCounPsy), York St John University (2026-Present, In Progress)
Completed Professional Qualifications
- Postgraduate Diploma in Humanistic Counselling (Distinction) - York St John University
- BSc (Hons) Psychology with Counselling - York St John University
Professional Memberships
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
- Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS)
Additional Professional Training
- Trauma-Informed Support (NHS)
- Level 3 Accredited Peer Support Worker Training
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
- Mental Capacity Act Training (City of York Council)
- Safeguarding for the Adult Social Care Workforce / Safeguarding Adults Level 1
- Safeguarding Children (Care Certificate 11)
- Oliver McGowan Autism Training (NHS)
- Carer Awareness
- Dementia Awareness (City of York Council)
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Shame and self-criticism
- Childhood emotional neglect and relational trauma
- Ambiguous loss and anticipatory grief
- Boundaries, people-pleasing and codependency
- Emotional numbness, shutdown and dysregulation
- Identity, self-understanding and life transitions
- Men's mental health and vulnerability
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individual Humanistic Therapy
Standard appointments: £45 per session (50 minutes)
Evening appointments (after 5pm): £50 per session (50 minutes)
Concessionary Rates
Reduced-fee appointments are subject to availability. Please feel welcome to enquire about concessionary rates before beginning therapy.
When I work
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Further information
Your First Conversation
Choosing a therapist asks you to consider trusting someone you have yet to meet. I offer a free, no-obligation 15-minute introductory conversation so you can ask questions, hear more about how I work and get a sense of how you feel in my company.
You can tell me what you are hoping for, what concerns you about therapy or what you would like to understand before deciding. There is no expectation to recount painful experiences during our introduction.
Additional time and communication adjustments are available on request, including for neurodivergent individuals and anyone who needs more space to process or respond. You are welcome to send questions beforehand, request an outline of what to expect or explain what might make the conversation easier. You do not need a formal diagnosis to ask.
If something in my approach resonates with you, I warmly invite you to get in touch and explore whether working together feels right.
We can begin with what feels possible to say, and give the rest time.
