About Janet
Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with ten years of practice across health and community settings in the United Kingdom. She has worked in the NHS, a women’s centre, a hospice, a bereavement agency, a perinatal mental health charity, a cancer support centre and a men’s counselling service.
Janet uses what she has learned in those roles to help people find clearer ways forward. Janet takes an existential view of emotional struggle.
How Janet works
She does not judge people for what they feel. Instead she helps them look at how they experience the world, their relationships and their sense of meaning. This makes conversations more about personal choices and values than labels.
Her practice draws on a range of approaches, including cognitive behavioural methods and client-centred work, adapted to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on practical steps and on understanding patterns that get in the way of wellbeing. Janet also supports people through life transitions and non-traditional relationship arrangements.
She has experience with loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction and a broad range of relationship and identity concerns. Janet also works with issues such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image and ADHD related challenges. Her background in bereavement, perinatal care and hospice settings informs how she supports complex emotional situations.
Janet offers a calm, non-judgemental space to talk and to try new ways of coping. Conversations aim to help people make practical changes, clarify priorities and rebuild a sense of purpose. If someone is ready to begin, Janet will work alongside them through change and recovery.
Janet lists 10 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Yoruba |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people look at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds influence current feelings. It can be useful for those struggling with trust, intimacy or attachment issues. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and helping a person find their own solutions by reflecting their experience and priorities. It is helpful when someone needs acceptance and space to explore identity and values.Choosing the right approach is part of how Janet works. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means approaches can be adapted as therapy progresses to match changing needs.
Online work can be flexible and practical. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or have lower bandwidth, live chat offers shorter check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while still working with registered or accredited professionals and experienced therapists.
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