Jacquelyn Bownes MBACP, MAC (accredited)

About me

Hi, my name is Jacquelyn & I am an experienced, BACP registered, Counsellor & Psychotherapist & an award winning Coach. Based in Ramsbottom, Bury & City Centre Manchester, I offer both short & long term one to one counselling support & professional coaching to private clients & organisational ones across the North West.

I adopt a Person Centred approach  and offer a warm, relaxed & confidential space for you to share & talk through your concerns, whatever they may be. My aim is to work alongside you and support you in exploring & making sense of where you find yourself, enabling you to think/see things from a different perspective & feel better able to move onwards more positively.

People come to counselling with me for many reasons and I have a particular interest in working with workplace issues/concerns, self confidence/self esteem, relationship difficulties & significant life changes. Regardless of what it is you bring, our work together can help you to;

• Learn more about yourself
• Make sense of your thoughts and feelings
• Release some of the pressure you may have been experiencing
• Develop as a person
• Learn how to take control of your life
• Respond to challenges and change more healthily
• Build self confidence & self esteem
• Identify & make changes, if you decide they are needed

Having worked one to one in helping relationships for over 20 years, I feel passionate & privileged about the work I do.  My clients describe me as a; "warm, caring and empathic listener"  "supportive and challenging in the right way" & able to "make a real difference" & "get me 'unstuck'".

As an experienced, professional workplace coach, many of my counselling clients choose, when they are ready, to move on to coaching to consolidate their learning, with more pragmatic support & challenge, to make sustainable changes in their life & career.