Jackie Kenworthy

Jackie Kenworthy is a counsellor with NCPS and 25 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on everyday pressures such as stress and anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, career strain, grief and eating and sleep difficulties. Her first aim is to make people feel heard and respected from the first session.

She creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgement. Jackie works in straightforward language and helps people name what is happening for them. She listens closely to find practical ways to manage distress and to support clearer thinking about choices.

Jackie draws on client-centred ways of working alongside cognitive and behavioural tools. This means conversations are guided by the person's own goals while using techniques to notice unhelpful thinking and change unhelpful habits. She also uses ideas from dialectical behaviour approaches and emotionally focused work to support relationships and emotional regulation.

Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns including addictions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, attachment and communication problems. Jackie also supports people dealing with body image, abandonment issues, codependency and the impact of illness such as cancer.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She encourages small, realistic steps so progress feels manageable. To begin, people follow the site's sign-up flow and complete a short matching questionnaire before arranging sessions.

How therapeutic approaches work in online counselling

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experiences. In practice this means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people make choices that matter to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thought patterns and small behavioural changes that can reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Dialectical behaviour therapy, DBT, offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jackie will discuss different methods and together with the client decide which fits best. The selection is guided by current difficulties, personal preferences and what feels achievable, rather than a single fixed method.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by saving travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday or avoiding the need to be on camera when that feels difficult. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt the same therapeutic techniques used in face-to-face work to suit remote sessions, focusing on practical tasks and skills that can be used between meetings.