About me
Information About Me
A very warm welcome to you.
I'm Jenni (she/her) and I founded my private Practice All Ears Counselling Ltd in 2017. Now based in Brighton, I have BACP Accreditation status and am also qualified as a Counselling Supervisor to other therapists. I specialise working with Adults in the local areas of Brighton and Hove and welcome people from across Sussex.
I encourage the importance and care for our mental health as much as our physical health. We are all the sum of our parts and giving attention to our thoughts, feeling and behaviours can not only give us a better understanding of our sense of self, but also grow our awareness as to how we communicate and understand those around us, including our families, our partners, work or social relationships. Talking therapies can be beneficial to anyone who is experiencing difficulty or are troubled by their thinking, feel unsatisfied by how they feel, or are frustrated with what they doing. We might find social, economic or world events impacting our daily routine. Recent years are proving to be particularly challenging for many and so it is my aim to normalise speaking to a therapist about difficulty and mental wellbeing just as we would a GP about physical health.
Aside my general practice, I spent several years working with Charity Oscars Wish Foundation, offering bereavement and counselling support to couples and families who have sadly experienced baby loss, including IVF, miscarriage, stillbirth and neo natal death.
Whilst training as a therapist, I also began working part-time at a local school for the disabled, which I found immensely rewarding. This gave me the experience of caring for others and meeting families whose personal lives were continuously impacted by difficulty, challenges and expectation.
Counselling has been invaluable to me personally over the years and in addition to providing therapy to others, I truly understand how supportive and life changing this can be. I understand nerves and anxiety around addressing and starting or even restarting therapy.
Life can feel overwhelming for many. As a society we are bombarded with news updates and social media exchanges as we are led by a heavily tech society and world. A culture of being constantly 'switched on', is inhibiting our ability to 'switch off'. As we spend more time on-line it's not surprising we are seeing a rise in anxiety, depression and feelings of low self-esteem, and not just amongst the younger generations. But these feelings can also be deep seated for all ages and all reasons. Generationally, genetically and historically. It's easy to fall into the pattern of coping, telling the world 'I'm fine' or 'I'm ok', but underneath that's not what you're feeling at all.
Helping my clients slow down and take notice of what in their life is affecting their wellbeing is important. Helping them to find new ways to think, feel, communicate and behave differently can contribute to their change. As a Humanistic Integrative Counsellor, I offer impartiality and work using a number of different psychotherapies and styles, meaning I am able to tailor your therapy to suit your individual needs and recognise when to work gently or perhaps more directly, but always at a pace that suits you. I provide a welcoming, comfortable, safe and private space for you to talk confidentially about whatever your struggles or difficulties may be.
I believe that everybody has the potential to grow and change. It's possible to get rid of unhelpful habits and remove deeply embedded shame from the past. It's possible to improve communication and relationships in life and increasing our self-esteem.
After initial enquiry is made, I arrange with you a free 20 minute telephone consultation to explore more about what you are looking to address in counselling. From the call, if continuing, I next invite you to a full assessment session and run through essential medical and family history information to clarify no other reason for our not working together and to explain further what you might expect from working with me. With no obligation to proceed, this does provide opportunity to ask me any other questions before I invite you to think if I might be the right therapist for you. Finally, if we agree to work together, we start with an initial block of 6 sessions before extending based on your individual needs and with regular reviews.
50 minute Counselling sessions £60
50 minute Assessment session £25
If you are interested in any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone, email or via my website.
Training, qualifications & experience
My Experience and Qualifications:
Working in Private Practice 'All Ears Counselling' since 2017 and achieving BACP Counselling Accreditation Certificate status in 2021. I have experience working largely with depression, anxious thinking, bereavement, anger and trauma as well as helping people to understand events from their past as well as present issues.
From 2018-2022 I teamed up with Oscars Wish Foundation, offering counselling support to bereaved parents through neo-natal death, stillbirth, miscarriage and IVF complications. I continue to offer support to grieving individuals effected by baby loss through my private practice.
I studied and qualified at the Wealden College of Counselling and Psychotherapy in East Sussex achieving a Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling - 2014-2016
TA 101 2014
Certificate in Counselling Skills 2013
Volunteer Counsellor at Sussex Community Development Agency, Newhaven (SCDA) (2015-2017)
Volunteer Counsellor at Care For The Carers, Eastbourne (2014-2016)
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.
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£55.00 per session
When I work
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Sessions available face to face and via Zoom.
Regular sessions Tuesday- Thursdays 8.30am - 6.30pm
Please enquire for availability for evening sessions.
Further information
Offering the choice of meeting and holding sessions in person or on-line sessions via Zoom.
