About Janet
Janet Brown is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with a BACP accreditation and five years of practice. She welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed and prefers a warm, respectful style in sessions. Her approach treats each person as the expert on their own life while offering tools to change unhelpful patterns.
Janet uses a blend of practical strategies and listening. She draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going.
How Janet works
She also uses client-centred methods to make space for people to tell their story without judgement. Many people come to her with relationship and family concerns, grief, or anxiety. She also supports those dealing with trauma, issues around eating, stress, sleep problems and challenges linked to identity and self-esteem.
Janet has experience addressing attachment wounds, abandonment fears and blended family dynamics. Sessions include work on practical coping skills, mindfulness exercises and narrative exploration to rewrite painful personal stories. Conversations aim to be straightforward, with goals set together and steps agreed between counsellor and client.
Janet encourages small, manageable changes that build confidence over time. People can expect a calm, compassionate space to talk and try things that might help day-to-day life. Janet accepts international clients and runs sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions through the Start Therapy button.
Janet lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Janet works with
The areas below are the ones Janet selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| 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 therapy options
Janet commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and client-centred work. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours, which helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre and uses empathic listening to help them make their own choices and build self-trust.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. Janet will listen to what matters most and suggest ways to try different techniques. This collaborative way means goals and methods can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with her is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or days when writing feels better. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family routines and travel.
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