Jill Blackburn-Hooker

Hi I'm Jill, I am a therapeutic counsellor based in North Oxford, Summertown for face-to-face or online counselling at Room2counselling.

I am a member and approved practitioner of the BACP.

I work with all manner of presenting issues from grief, loss, relationship break downs, body image, depression, self-esteem, worry, anxiety, bereavement, stress, disordered eating, powerlessness, divorce and everything in between.

My support is therapeutic, I see you as the expert on your issues and sit alongside you while you begin to unpack what the challenges are. 

My approach is person-centred, which meets you with empathetic, non judgemental support to build trust. This enables you to feel safe enough to bring your full self and experiences to the session.

Once a client feels safe enough to share how they are really feeling, the work deepens and clients begin to report that they feel differently about their situation.

I tailor sessions to support working towards deepening understanding of the internal world. I am a supportive witness, approaching the challenges with you, curiously exploring patterns, visiting past experiences sensitively, shouldering the weight together. We will circle around the challenges over several sessions, looking carefully at things that have happened, exploring the impact. I will  scaffold introspection and work with you to identify the emotional impact, we will gradually move into compassionate understanding of self, and this usually facilitates change for clients.

Please ask questions about anything you are unsure about in your enquiry.

I continue to train and update CPD to improve my skills and knowledge.

If clients wish to explore somatic work - connection of body and mind, I can offer support with body work and mindful practices.

This can be helpful for clients who are stuck in their thoughts, ruminating over past experiences. It can feel like we are stuck and unable to appreciate life moving forward.

It can open and reshape memories, shift anger and bring flow to grief. It can help to release conflict, tension and trauma held in the body. I have noticed it is particularly helpful for clients who have experienced feeling powerlessness and also disordered eating or body dysmorphia. 

• I work with a clinical supervisor and am bound by an ethical framework to keep myself and clients safe.
• I work with teens aged 14+ and adults.
• I have experience of making sessions accessible for clients with additional needs and neurodivergence. 

Clients pay before their session, I accept BACS transfer and cash payments.

It can be weekly payment or monthly amount to cover sessions that month. 

I recommend having in mind how many sessions you think you may need and booking those in to your diary in advance - this helps to commit to the sessions.

Strangley, some months of the year are more busy than others. If you enquire and I do not have space, I will add you to the waiting list and give you an approximate wait time or can offer a recommendation/referral to another counsellor.

Some clients wish to have an end in mind, I am flexible and can work to a set number of sessions or work in a time unlimited way.

I ask for 48 hours notice to cancel appointments.