About Jackie
Jackie Chester offers a warm, client-centred way of working that puts the person first. She uses Client-Centred Therapy to help people speak honestly about what is worrying them and to find their own solutions. Jackie is based in the United Kingdom and brings 17 years of experience to her practice.
She helps people who are coping with stress and anxiety, depression, and difficulties with self‑esteem. Jackie also supports those facing addictions, trauma and abuse, and problems with intimacy and relationships.
How Jackie works
Her work includes addressing mood disorders, obsessive behaviours, panic, and anger concerns. In a session she focuses on listening without judgement and reflecting what she hears. This approach aims to make it easier to say difficult things and to notice options for change.
Conversations are straightforward and paced to what a person can manage. Jackie also helps with more specific struggles such as body image, codependency, domestic violence effects, hoarding, and impulsivity. She works with people dealing with grief, life changes, and the challenges that come with bipolar and personality difficulties.
Practical steps and steady support are part of how she works. People who choose Jackie can expect a calm, respectful space to talk. She encourages small, realistic goals and checks in about what is most helpful.
Jackie holds a BACP credential, which is listed as part of her professional details.
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What Jackie works with
The areas below are the ones Jackie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How client-centred therapy works online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on hearing the person's experience without judgement and helping them arrive at their own answers. In practice this means the counsellor listens carefully, reflects back what they hear, and supports the person to make choices that feel right. This approach is often helpful for anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, and problems with self‑esteem.Jackie centres conversations on the person's needs and preferences, so finding the right approach is a shared process. She will discuss what is helping or getting in the way, and together they will try different ways of working until the best fit is found. This collaborative stance applies whether sessions are brief check-ins or longer therapeutic work.
Online therapy here is offered by registered or accredited professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to arrange therapy around work, travel, or family commitments.
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