About Jay
Jay Williams offers straightforward, calm support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or major life changes. He helps those struggling with self-esteem, relationship strain, career questions and sleep difficulties. Jay is a counsellor with a BACP accreditation and five years of practice in the United Kingdom, and he communicates in English.
Jay uses a blend of psychodynamic ideas and mindfulness to help people notice patterns in their feelings and behaviour.
How Jay works
Sessions aim to make difficult emotions easier to understand. Conversations are paced to suit the individual and focus on practical ways to cope as insight grows. In sessions Jay encourages people to talk about recent problems and earlier experiences that still affect them.
He pays attention to how feelings show up in the room and helps connect those moments to everyday life. This can make recurring difficulties less confusing and more manageable. Mindfulness practices are offered alongside discussion when helpful, with simple exercises to calm the mind and improve focus.
These tools are shared in bite-sized ways so people can use them between sessions. The emphasis is on small, steady changes rather than quick fixes. Jay has worked with a range of common concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, anger and issues around identity such as LGBT matters.
He also supports people coping with relationship breakdown, addictive patterns and feelings of emptiness. To begin, people complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that suit them. Jay accepts international clients and offers therapy by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Jay lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Jay works with
The areas below are the ones Jay selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
How Jay blends talk therapy and mindfulness online
Jay draws on psychodynamic work and mindfulness practices to guide online sessions. Psychodynamic work focuses on talking through current concerns and earlier life events to spot repeating patterns and hidden feelings; it can be useful for relationship difficulties, unresolved grief and long-standing emotional pain. Mindfulness therapy offers simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and improve sleep and focus, often used alongside talk-based work.Finding the right approach is treated as a shared process. Jay discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts the balance between reflection and practical exercises over time. This collaborative way helps people feel involved in choosing methods that suit their needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for more in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat or text messaging suit shorter updates, brief coaching or when people prefer not to use audio or video. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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