About Jeanna
I know what it feels like to start again.
Redundant four times in three years. Multiple countries. Multiple fresh starts. More than one marriage. The kind of CV that doesn't fit neatly into a LinkedIn profile — but that turned out to be exactly the right preparation for sitting across from someone whose life has just turned itself upside down.
I didn't turn any of that into a wound. I turned it into a skillset.
When clients sit down opposite me, they're not talking to someone who learned about loss from a textbook. They're talking to someone who's been made redundant on a Friday afternoon, moved to a country where they didn't speak the language, and had to work out who they were when the job title and the postcode no longer told them.
"I've been in that chair. I know what it costs to sit in mine."
The difference is: I found a way through. And I've spent the years since helping other people do the same.
Three tools. One kit.
Person-centred counselling
The foundation. Meeting the client exactly where they are — without agenda, without judgement, and without rushing them through their own process. The relationship between client and therapist is itself therapeutic.
CBT
When the time is right, disrupting unhelpful thought patterns and building better ones. Not as a first resort — as a tool, deployed when the groundwork is done and the client is ready to change how they respond.
Business & Personal Coaching
Goal systems, forward momentum, real plans. Once the emotional weight has lifted enough to look forward, coaching helps build the route. Not vague aspiration — concrete direction.
These aren't three different things. They're three tools in the same kit.
Background
Before moving to Spain, Jeanna worked in the UK across a range of settings that most therapists don't encounter. Facilitation work with the Metropolitan Police's Black Police Federation. Trauma and PTSD support with veterans — people who had learned to function under extreme pressure and found civilian life harder than the job. Work in Pupil Referral Units with young people others had given up on.
Each of those settings required a different version of the same skill: meeting people where they actually are, not where it would be convenient for them to be.
Jeanna is a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Qualifications
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Level 5 Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic Skills and Theory (European Qualifications Framework Level 5)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Life Coaching
Working outdoors
Some sessions don't happen in a room. Jeanna sometimes takes sessions on the promenade, along the coast, or wherever the combination of movement and fresh air does something that a chair and four walls can't. If that sounds like your kind of session, read more about walking therapy.
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