About Jonathan
Jonathan Wilkes is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who combines somatic awareness with talking therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety and life changes. He holds a BACP accreditation and has four years' experience working in counselling and psychotherapy. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Jonathan creates a calm, accepting space where people can talk through painful thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how emotions show up in the body as well as in thought and speech. This helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and try small, practical changes. In work with grief, depression, trauma and addiction he uses clear, paced interventions.
He draws on client-centred principles so the person’s priorities shape each session. Cognitive tools and mindfulness exercises are used when they suit the client’s goals. Jonathan also supports people dealing with relationship difficulties, self-esteem problems, anger, and life purpose questions.
He is familiar with abandonment and attachment issues, dissociation, codependency and body image concerns. He adapts the pace and methods to each person’s comfort and readiness. People who choose him can expect practical skills alongside deeper exploration.
Sessions may include breathing or body-awareness practices, conversational work and step-by-step strategies to cope day to day. He invites a collaborative approach so people set the aims and choose the path forward.
How somatic and talking approaches work online
Jonathan mixes somatic work with client-centred and cognitive-behavioural approaches. Somatic Therapy helps people notice where emotions live in the body and use breath or gentle body-awareness to reduce tension. It can be useful for trauma, anxiety and stress that feel stuck in the body. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating a warm, accepting space where the person sets the pace and topics. It supports people needing understanding, emotional validation and deeper self-exploration. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and teaches practical exercises to change them, which helps with anxiety, low mood and repetitive negative thinking.Finding the right mix is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try approaches that fit the client’s needs. This is a collaborative process and methods are adapted over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These options make it easier to access sessions from home or during a busy week and allow different ways of working - from spoken conversation to short written check-ins and exercises. Many people find the variety helps them continue therapy around life commitments while still making steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English