About Janine
Janine Ellis offers calm, straightforward support for adults managing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and life changes. She is Janine and she focuses on helping adults over 18 who want clearer thinking and steadier feelings. Her approach aims to make emotional work feel manageable and practical.
Janine trained to be a psychotherapeutic counsellor and holds a Masters with distinction in Integrative Counselling. She is a BACP member, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and follows their ethical code.
How Janine works
Janine also has experience working as a relationship counsellor for Relate Bradford & Leeds. Before counselling, Janine spent two decades in the music industry. That background gives her insight into the pressures faced by musicians and industry workers, and she offers specialist support to people from that world.
Her style is relational and person-centred. Janine aims to build trust and respect without judgement, and she uses that connection as the base for change. She also draws on a mix of methods when helpful, including psychodynamic ideas, attachment perspectives, mindfulness and acceptance-based techniques.
Sessions focus on what matters to each person. Janine works with people on issues such as trauma and abuse, intimacy and self-esteem, body image, communication problems, loss, infertility or midlife questions. She adapts the work to fit each person’s goals and preferences.
Janine lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Janine works with
The areas below are the ones Janine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Janine often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being ruled by them and to act in ways that match their values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, avoidance and life transitions.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, which looks at how early patterns of relating affect current relationships and emotional reactions. This work can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together they will choose or adapt methods that suit the issue and the person’s style. Janine uses collaboration to shape the pace and focus of sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well for people who prefer no camera and can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and daily life while keeping the focus on the same therapeutic approaches used in person.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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