Jennifer Haden, BACP
A warm, practical counsellor for emotional strain
About Jennifer
Jennifer Haden offers straightforward, compassionate counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship strain. She aims to listen carefully and help clients feel understood so they can start to make manageable changes. Jennifer's style is warm and non-judgemental, with an emphasis on practical steps that can be used between sessions.
Jennifer uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on somatic work to help people notice how emotions show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred methods to create a respectful space, and cognitive behavioural techniques to identify helpful changes in thinking and behaviour. Psychodynamic ideas are used where looking at past patterns may bring clarity to current difficulties. Her background includes a degree-level counselling education and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She has worked in counselling roles since 2008 and brings three years in the context described for this profile. Sessions have helped people address issues such as depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep problems, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related concerns. Jennifer offers short-term and longer-term work.
Conversations focus on what the person wants to change and on building practical coping skills. She also supports people dealing with grief, family of origin issues, abandonment and attachment concerns. Sessions are offered online and by phone, with options for video calls, live chat or text-based messaging.
Face-to-face meetings are available in Stratford-upon-Avon for those who prefer them.
How Jennifer uses approaches online and why they help
Jennifer integrates somatic work and client-centred approaches to support people in online sessions. Somatic therapy helps people notice and work with bodily sensations linked to stress or trauma, which can reduce reactivity and help someone feel more grounded. Client-centred work creates a respectful, accepting space where people can speak freely and feel heard without pressure.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to change patterns. These methods can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process - the therapist will discuss options and agree a plan that fits the person's goals, needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting or health commitments and let people continue therapy while travelling or living abroad. The aim is to make consistent support more accessible while adapting techniques so they work well in remote sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English