This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I believe that healing and change begin within. As an attachment therapist, I help individuals develop a deeper, more compassionate relationship with themselves—because many of our struggles, including anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties, stem from this core connection.
Many people carry guilt, shame, or remorse, feeling weighed down by past wounds and stuck in unhelpful patterns. But healing isn’t about erasing these scars—it’s about understanding them, accepting them, and celebrating them. Like the Japanese art of kintsugi, which repairs broken pottery with gold, our cracks are not flaws to hide—they are part of our unique strength and beauty.
In therapy, I invite you to honour what makes you different, to value what you have survived, and to begin the journey of self-forgiveness. You don’t need to be the same as everyone else—that difference is exactly what makes you special.
I work with people who feel stuck in repetitive relationship patterns, who struggle with anxiety or depression, or who feel disconnected from themselves. I also support individuals who are questioning their sexuality, considering leaving a religious or faith-based group, or facing major life transitions such as leaving home, marriage, parenthood, illness, or relocating to a new country.
My approach is rooted in attachment-based therapy, with techniques drawn from hypnotherapy, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), and other helpful modalities. I offer online therapy and in-person sessions in Hertfordshire, in a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space.
Getting Started in Therapy
If this is your first experience of psychotherapy or counselling, you might find the idea of talking about yourself a little daunting.
So I invite you to schedule a free 15 minute video chat to see how it feels and how I can help you.
Where to Find Me
I am based in Hertfordshire, England, from where I have an online practice which allows me to see people around the world.
Professional Development
As part of my commitment to my on-going professional development, I present my clinical work to a supervisor, who like myself, adheres to the UKCP’s code of ethics, including the highest levels of confidentiality. I also participate in continuous peer-supervision to ensure that my therapy practices afford you the best informed care.
Training, qualifications & experience
For the last 10 years, I have worked exclusively with adults in private practice providing psychoanalytic psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.
Many of the people who see me are artists, techies and other professionals living and working in London. For most clients, simply living in London throws up a host of challenges that they may need support adjusting to and navigating. This may be alongside other struggles which may predate or be triggered by big city living. Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, socially isolated and alone, anxious, self-doubting are just some of the concerns for which my clients might seek support.
Others I see struggle with relationships with a faith based, or coercive religious groups. They may grapple with exiting the group and rebuilding a life outside of it without the supportive structures and norms the group offered that they had relied upon in the past. This can be both a frightening as well as hopeful time and therapy can help with processing the host of feelings that can emerge during the process.
I also work with people who feel stuck generally. Whether in repetitive patterns like finding themeslves getting into the same types of challenges or relationships again and again, or feeling stuck or blocked creatively or professionally, therapy can help to move forward and make meaning.
In the past, I worked in services for teens and young adults, mostly from BME communities in the inner cities - Black and Hispanic youth in NYC as well as Orthodox Jewish young people in London and New York. Most of these young people no matter how different their cultures, shared a sense of disenfranchisement and hopelessness, expressed through drugs, violence, engaging in street culture, dropping out of school and estrangement from family. Whether through my work in drug rehabilitation centres or job readiness programmes, as a counsellor, or as a manager of services, I have sought to understand what my clients are experiencing and to meet them where they were at.
This is true also of my work with adults in private practice. I continuously add to my training and professional development so that my practice offers you the most meaningful pathway to change.
In addition to my diploma in attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I hold an undergraduate degree in Psychology (BA), completed a 1 year Associate's Training at The Arbors Therapeutic Community, and hold a certificate in Hypnotherapy (Eriksonian).
I am registered member of the UKCP and a full member of the BACP (MBACP), and have private practices in Shoreditch and Borehamwood.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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
Religion and Spirituality
Later-Life (Elderly, Geriatric, older adults)
Teenhood
Struggles within religious or faith-based groups (eg orthodox Judaism, Islam, Christianity)
Black and Minority Ethnic concerns
Therapies offered
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Fees
£90.00 - £150.00
Additional information
I offer some limited concessionary spaces at £80.
When I work
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I am offering online therapy only. Please do get in touch and we will find a time that suits you.
Further information
My Borehamwood, Herfordshire practice is just a 10 minute walk away from Borehamwood and Elstree National Rail Station and is on several bus routes. There is also free street parking close by.
How to Contact Me:
To book an appointment, call or text me on 07939 643 382
or to email me, write to: jacquelinetherapy@gmail.com
I will usually be able to see you within a week of you making your first contact with me.
What happens next?
Phone: If you reach my answering machine, please do leave a message.
I will always return your call on the same day, or first thing the next morning.
I assure complete discretion when I return your call. Please specify if you prefer that I do not leave a message.
Text or Email: If you prefer not to be contacted by phone, then your appointment can be arranged entirely by email or text. Please be sure to include your name and to state your availability, to assist me in offering you a suitable time to meet.
Please view my website for much more information, including FAQs.
www.jspsychotherapy.com
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