About Jacintha
Jacintha Canary is a counsellor with 25 years of experience supporting people through major life challenges. She lives in the United Kingdom and brings a background that includes teaching and community leadership. She is a BACP member and welcomes people from all faiths and from none.
Her work focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting concerns, eating and body image, career changes and compassion fatigue.
How Jacintha works
Trauma, domestic violence, abandonment and attachment difficulties are part of her practice too. Jacintha uses a person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of the conversation. She does not give ready-made answers.
Instead she listens, asks questions and helps people find their own way forward. She also draws on mindfulness techniques to build present-moment awareness. Those techniques can help with grounding during anxiety and with noticing thoughts and feelings without becoming overwhelmed.
For people dealing with trauma, Jacintha incorporates trauma-focused ideas alongside body-based work from the QSL framework. This supports work on how the body holds past experiences and how to reconnect more safely with emotions. Her background in teaching, sport and community work informs a calm, steady style.
She aims to create a space where people can explore difficult material, build resilience and make practical changes for daily life.
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What Jacintha works with
The areas below are the ones Jacintha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English, Afrikaans |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Jacintha uses person-centred work that focuses on understanding the individual's experience. This approach involves open listening and reflective questions to help people clarify what matters to them and decide on next steps. It is useful for stress, relationship issues and coping with life changes.She also uses trauma-focused strategies when needed to address past harm. These methods pay attention to how difficult events affect thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations, and help people develop safer ways to process those experiences. Mindfulness practices are offered to strengthen present-moment awareness and reduce anxiety through simple breathing and noticing exercises.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. Together they review what feels helpful and adjust the approach as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or clients prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins and a way to reflect in writing between sessions. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to support clients across locations and time zones.
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