Jennie Stoddart

Hello, and thank you for considering me as your counsellor.

I am a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor and registered member of the BACP.

Perhaps you are feeling down, confused, stuck or dissatisfied. Anxious or uncertain about your life or your relationships. Perhaps you’re seeking support after a bereavement or difficult life event, or perhaps you’re feeling a desire to know yourself better.

I can offer a down-to-earth, open-hearted and empathetic ear to whatever you bring, and a dedicated space for you to explore your experiences, reactions and emotions. I strive to be a fellow traveller as my clients explore themselves, perhaps meet themselves fully, without judgement or preconceptions.

I’m trained in integrative humanistic counselling, which means that I have a grounding in a range of therapeutic and psychological theories which I can bring into our work, with the goal of helping you and meeting your therapeutic needs.

Person-centred, existential and relational approaches are at the core of my way of being with clients. This means our time together is your time, what happens in the therapy will grow out of what you bring, and what is happening in the present moment of our meeting. Fundamentally I’m steered by the belief that we all have what we need inside ourselves to thrive, given the right conditions. In our time together we can seek to find some of those conditions.

Life can be complicated, and humans are complicated too. Perhaps through talking therapy, we can untangle some of that complexity, find some clarity, self-knowledge and self-compassion to make our own experience of life more manageable, more fruitful.

Jennie Stoddart Dip.Couns MBACP