Jenny Noero Consultant Clinical & Counselling Psychologist

I have worked for over 30 years as a qualified professional, including many years of working at Consultant level in the NHS.  I specialise in providing individual and couples therapy. and aim to listen with care and respect to the issues you bring to therapy.  I offer a a confidential and supportive place for you, or both of you, to explore the difficulties that brought you to therapy and to find ways to change these challenges.

Couples Therapy

Over my many years of working across a variety of services, I have seen how a supportive and secure relationship contributes significantly to emotional and mental wellbeing.  This experience has made couples and relational work particularly meaningful for me.  My aim is to help you find ways to become more responsive, emotionally available and engaged with one other by increasing communication and decreasing reactivity.  This is done by providing you both with the opportunity to safely share your deepest experiences of your relationship, including painful and difficult emotions. Over time habitual reactions and repetitive patterns and cycles of conflict can be identified. Recognising these and transforming the way you respond to one another and changing repetitive patterns draws you towards becoming more emotionally available to one another. This in turn develops a sense of safety and security within your relationship.

The main approach I use in couples therapy is called Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) which involves working primarily with emotions and habitual patters of responding.  However I may also include other approaches if needed, such as elements from a more cognitive behavioural perspective, mindfulness and a psychological understanding.

Individual Psychological Therapy

I provide therapy to adults of all ages, from working age to post-retirement and offer short term or longer term treatment. The areas I can provide help with include trauma and PTSD, interpersonal and relationship issues, health anxiety and health-related conditions, low mood, depression, anxiety disorders (such as generalised anxiety, panic, phobia, social anxiety), obsessive compulsive disorder, low self esteem, stress, adjustment difficulties, bereavement and loss, somatic presentations and pain, neurological conditions and dementia.

The main therapeutic approaches I use are:  Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Emotionally Focused Therapy for individuals (EFT) and a Person-Centred approach.  However, I often work in an integrative way using more than one therapy in order to meet the complex needs of my clients.  Ultimately the approach will depend on the problem or problems you bring to therapy, what you feel you need and the psychological formulation of your difficulties.

What to expect from your first session

If you do decide to go ahead, our first session will give us the opportunity to meet and discuss the problems troubling you in detail.  The session will be aimed at  assessing the nature of these difficulties to allow me to gain enough understanding so that I can suggest the best approach to meet your needs.  We will agree on some basic "housekeeping" such as finalising arrangements about how often we will meet, payment, cancellation and rescheduling etc.  I will try to make this as comfortable and useful a process as possible for you.