About Jane
Jane Sheppard helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and career concerns. She is named in the first paragraph so readers know who they are reading about. Jane holds BACP, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and she has four years of experience in practice.
Jane works in a calm, straightforward way. She offers a space where people can talk about hard things without judgement.
How Jane works
Sessions aim to make problems easier to understand and break them into manageable steps. Her approach draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas, plus cognitive behavioural techniques and trauma-focused work. That means she pays attention to how early relationships shape feelings, listens closely to each person, and uses practical strategies to shift thoughts and behaviours.
Jane also uses solution-focused methods to help people set concrete goals and move forward. She supports people dealing with issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, codependency, dissociation, and substance-related problems. She helps with separation, domestic violence fallout, and the stress faced by caregivers.
Sessions are suited to people wanting clear steps and emotional support together. Jane aims to help clients spot patterns, try small changes, and build more effective ways of coping. The emphasis is on practical tools and steady personal understanding.
To begin, a simple matching process and scheduling step connects someone to sessions. Jane’s work is aimed at individuals seeking steady, compassionate support while they work through difficult life events.
Jane lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Jane works with
The areas below are the ones Jane selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Jane’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and reactions. Online sessions use this approach to help people recognise patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more manageable.Client-centred therapy focuses on being heard and understood. In this way of working the counsellor listens without judgement and follows the person’s pace, helping them clarify what matters most and make their own decisions.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour. This can be useful for stress, anxiety and mood concerns by giving step-by-step skills to test worries and build different habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jane will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has helped before, and together they choose methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and it can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility across video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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