About Jean
Jean Briscoe is a counsellor with 20 years' experience in the UK. She is a BACP member and has worked across the NHS, independent practice and employee assistance programmes. Jean focuses on practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and long-term health challenges.
She uses straightforward approaches in sessions. Jean draws on client-centred work to follow each person’s lead. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques and solution-focused ideas to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
How Jean works
Jean has particular experience with physical health issues and disability. This includes amputations, multiple sclerosis and chronic pain, and the emotional effects those conditions can bring. She also works with people concerned about body image, eating and caregiving stress.
Her practice includes supporting people from LGBT communities and those coping with relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, parenting stress and career pressures. Jean also addresses attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, and neurodivergent assessments related to ADHD and autism. Sessions aim to be honest, respectful and non-judgemental.
Jean encourages clients to set the pace and explore what matters most to them. She focuses on helping people make practical changes they can live with. Clients who choose to work with her start by identifying a few goals.
Conversations then look at underlying feelings and small, workable steps forward. The emphasis is on clarity, compassion and realistic progress.
Jean lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Jean works with
The areas below are the ones Jean selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Jean’s approaches translate to online therapy
Jean uses client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy to guide online work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s pace, helping them feel heard and understood. It is useful for exploring emotions, relationship worries and self-esteem issues. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and helps people try different actions to reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing an approach is a shared process. Jean will discuss the options with each person and agree what to try first. She reviews progress together and adjusts the plan based on the client’s needs, goals and preferences to find the best fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different routines. Video calls support face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break. Live chat or text messaging allows shorter check-ins and ongoing written support between sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to attend for a range of lifestyles and needs.
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