About Jennifer
Jennifer Edwards is a counsellor who works with the body as well as the mind. She blends somatic work with talking therapies to help people notice how stress and emotion show up in their bodies. Jennifer uses practical steps so people can begin to feel safer and more able in day to day life.
She often helps people who struggle with anxiety, depression and low self‑esteem. Relationship strain, grief, trauma and intimacy concerns are also areas she supports.
Background and approach
She has particular experience with issues around identity, LGBT matters, parenting strain and coping with life changes. Jennifer uses a mix of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused ideas, client-centred work and cognitive techniques. This means sessions can include gentle body awareness, values-based planning and practical thinking tools.
Conversations are aimed at spotting patterns, naming needs and testing small changes. In sessions she helps people explore early patterns that still affect them now. That might include feeling excluded, overcompensating around others, or holding suppressed feelings.
The work often moves between talking and noticing bodily sensations to build a clearer picture of what is happening. Over time the focus is on building a personalised toolbox of strategies. These are designed to increase confidence, reduce reactivity and improve connections with others.
Jennifer is registered with BACP and NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom with four years' experience. Sessions are conducted in English and provided online through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Practical steps are agreed together so people can choose what helps most for them.
Using somatic and evidence‑based approaches online
Jennifer commonly blends somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment‑based ideas. Somatic work helps people notice where tension and emotion live in the body and uses simple awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps towards them while learning to respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment‑based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current ways of relating, which can help with intimacy and communication difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the process and the counsellor treats it as a collaborative task. She will talk about different methods in early sessions and work with the person to choose what feels most helpful for their goals, needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family, work and daily life and allow techniques such as guided body awareness, values exercises and brief homework to be practised between sessions. Many people appreciate being able to use the format that suits them best while still working with registered or accredited professionals to make steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English