About Jareeda
Jareeda Walters-Leatherbarrow is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people coping with stress, anxiety, family problems, grief, low self-esteem and major life changes. She works to make talking about difficult feelings feel simpler and less overwhelming. Jareeda aims to help people feel more able to cope and make choices that suit their life.
She combines body-focused ways of working with talking therapies to notice how feelings show up in the body.
Background and approach
That somatic element is used alongside attachment-based and client-centred approaches to build safety in the room. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy ideas are introduced where helpful for managing strong emotions and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Jareeda has three years of professional experience and more than ten years supporting others with their mental health.
She holds BACP accreditation, which is noted as a professional credential. Her background includes helping people through grief, family conflict, separation, and issues around identity and self-worth. In sessions she aims to create an open, non-judgemental space.
People are invited to talk at their own pace and to try practical ways of coping between meetings. The work is collaborative and shaped around each person’s goals and needs. Jareeda enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds and focuses on helping them feel empowered.
She recognises that starting therapy is a big step and offers steady support while clients find what helps them most.
How approaches like somatic work and attachment support can translate online
Somatic work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body, such as tension, breath or posture. Online sessions can still use this focus by guiding gentle body awareness and noticing sensations alongside talk-based work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people try new ways of connecting and managing difficult feelings.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the client’s goals, needs and preferences. Over time they can adapt the balance between somatic awareness, attachment work and practical skills such as CBT or DBT techniques.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and movement or breathing work. Phone sessions suit people who prefer voice-only contact, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work even when travel or location would otherwise be a barrier.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English