Rio Jones
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About me
Hi, I’m Rio.
I’m a BACP registered counsellor and psychotherapist. I offer one-to-one online counselling for adults, young adults and teenagers.
My experience includes supporting young people and families in local authority children and families services, working in a family therapy clinic, and working in partnership with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). That experience shapes how I listen. I pay attention to what’s happening for you now and how life at home, school or work, your relationships and your culture might be part of what you’re carrying.
Sometimes the first thing you can say is, “I don’t really know how to explain it, but I’ve been feeling like this for a while.” We can start there.
Counselling for adults
You might be getting through the week and doing what needs to be done, while quietly wondering why everything feels harder than it used to.
- Anxiety and stress: You replay conversations or struggle to switch off, even when the day is over.
- Depression and low mood: You feel flat or disconnected, and things you used to enjoy take more effort.
- Relationships and family difficulties: The same arguments keep coming up, or you find yourself saying yes to keep the peace.
- Self-esteem and identity: You second-guess yourself or are making sense of how family expectations, culture have shaped how you see yourself.
- Grief and loss: You’re finding your feet after a bereavement, a breakup or a change in your family
Men’s mental health
You might be the person others rely on. When someone asks how you are, “I’m alright” can come out before you’ve had a chance to think about it.
- Feeling pressure to provide or keep things together.
- Going quiet or getting irritable when you’re hurt, worried or misunderstood.
- Finding your feet as a father, going through a breakup or carrying a loss you’ve barely spoken about.
If opening up feels unfamiliar, we can start with something that happened this week. I’ll listen and ask questions, and we can take our time making sense of it together.
Counselling for young adults
You’re figuring out adulthood while seeing everyone else’s milestones on your phone. Someone’s got a new job, someone’s moved out, and somehow they all seem to look good doing it. You can be happy for them and still put your phone down feeling like you’re falling behind.
- Comparing your looks, relationships or progress with what you see on social media.
- Feeling like you have to get things right first time, or putting things off until you feel completely ready.
- Making choices about work, university or moving out while managing family expectations.
We can talk through what you want, what you feel expected to do, and what might make your next step feel manageable.
Counselling for teenagers aged 13 and over
Maybe GCSEs are getting closer and every conversation seems to come back to revision or grades. Or maybe you’ve changed schools and you’re still finding people you feel comfortable around.
- GCSEs and mocks: including pressure from school, home or yourself to get certain grades.
- School changes: from the move from primary to secondary school to settling into a different school later on.
- Choosing what comes next: whether that’s sixth form, college, an apprenticeship or university.
- Life around school: including friendships, confidence, changes at home or losing someone.
We can start with something that happened this week or something you wish people understood about you. You’ll have a say in what we talk about.
If you’re a parent or carer
It can be hard to know how to help when your teenager seems worried or withdrawn and conversations at home feel difficult. You’re welcome to tell me what you’ve noticed. I consider enquiries from age 13 individually. Before we begin, we’ll talk through whether online counselling feels suitable, how you might be involved, and how confidentiality works, including when I may need to share information. I’ll also make time to hear what your teenager would like help with.
Training, qualifications & experience
I’m a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I completed my Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of East London and my Intermediate Certificate in Systemic Practice at the Institute of Family Therapy.
My experience includes working in a family therapy clinic, supporting young people and families in local authority children and families services, and working in partnership with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). That work has taught me how differently people can experience the same situation, even when they’re close. A parent might see a teenager pulling away, while the teenager is trying to find a way to talk without worrying everyone at home. I make time to hear how things feel from your side.
My systemic training shapes the questions I ask in counselling. If you’re always the person people turn to, for example, we might talk about when you first learned to be the dependable one, what that role has meant to you, and what happens when you need someone to show up for you. Family, culture and experiences of racism can all be part of that conversation, if they matter to you.
I’ll listen closely and sometimes ask a question that helps you see a familiar situation differently. You can bring something as ordinary as a conversation that’s stayed with you all week. Often, that’s a good place to begin.
Member organisations
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Some things are easier to describe in your own words. You might want to talk about:
- Being the one your family relies on and feeling guilty when you need time for yourself.
- Noticing that the way you grew up still affects how you handle disagreements, ask for help or let people get close.
- Feeling caught between what matters to you and what your family or community expects of you.
- Holding things in until you snap or go quiet, then struggling to explain what was going on for you.
- Finding your feet after a big change, such as moving out, becoming a parent or starting over after a relationship ends.
If something here feels familiar, we can start with a moment that’s stayed with you and talk through what it brought up.
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
I offer a free introductory online consultation of about 20 minutes. It’s a chance to ask questions and see how it feels to talk together.
If you’d like to go ahead, each 50-minute online counselling session costs £65. Please pay by bank transfer at least 24 hours before each session. I’ll send you the payment details when we arrange your first session.
Further information
What it’s like to work with me online
If you’re wondering what you’ll say when the call starts, it’s okay to tell me that. We can begin with what’s been on your mind lately, or with something that happened this week that’s stayed with you.
Our first conversation
I offer a free online consultation of about 20 minutes. You can tell me a little about what’s brought you here, ask me anything about counselling and get a feel for what it’s like to talk with me. You can take some time afterwards to decide whether you’d like to go ahead.
If you’d like to start counselling
I’ll send you an intake form and a counselling agreement before we meet. The form gives me a little background, and the agreement explains how we’ll work together. If you’re getting in touch for your teenager, we can talk about how to involve them from the start and what they’d like help with.
Sessions last 50 minutes and take place on Google Meet. I’ll email you a link before we meet. It helps to join from somewhere you feel comfortable talking without being overheard. We can meet weekly or fortnightly and talk through what feels manageable for you.
How we’ll use the time
I’ll listen, ask questions and sometimes share something I’ve noticed so we can think about it together. For example, if a conversation left you feeling upset hours later, we might slow it down and talk about what you felt at the time, what you wish you’d said and why it was hard to say it. We’ll go at a pace that gives you room to think and find your own words.
If you’d like to meet me, you’re welcome to book an introductory call or send me a message. A few words about what you’re looking for are enough to get us started.
