About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Branfield is a psychotherapist, counsellor and hypnotherapist with eight years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She works with adults and young people to address stress, anxiety, trauma and issues with self-esteem. Jacqueline uses a range of approaches so each session can be shaped to the person in front of her.
Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how past relationships influence current feelings. She also uses client-centred methods that prioritise the person’s own goals and pace.
How Jacqueline works
Cognitive behavioural techniques help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small, practical changes. Jacqueline has experience working in schools and as a consulting therapeutic practitioner, which gives her a practical sense of how problems show up day to day. She aims to make sessions inclusive and neurodiversity-aware, adapting language and pace to suit each person.
In sessions she focuses on calming the nervous system and reducing overwhelm and overthinking. Work may include managing anxiety, addressing dissociation, or building tools to handle relationship and family-of-origin issues. Hypnotherapy and mindfulness practices are offered where they might help.
Jacqueline encourages people to move away from self-criticism and toward kinder self-talk. She helps set small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable. Her approach is collaborative and paced to the individual’s needs.
Jacqueline lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Jacqueline works with
The areas below are the ones Jacqueline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Jacqueline blends attachment-based work with client-centred and cognitive behavioural methods to shape online therapy that feels personal and practical. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people understand why certain triggers feel so intense. Client-centred work focuses on the person’s own goals and pace, offering space to be heard and to lead the direction of change. Cognitive behavioural techniques identify unhelpful thinking habits and teach clear skills to reduce anxiety and reactivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline will discuss different ways of working and collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. That makes the process feel shared rather than imposed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client keep visual contact for depth of interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or people who prefer typed communication. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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