About Jean
Jean Van Slyke is a counsellor who uses a client-centred approach to help people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction and grief. She holds BACP accreditation and brings eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Jean aims to make first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person’s pace.
Jean focuses on everyday concerns as well as more complex difficulties. She supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar challenges and compassion fatigue.
How Jean works
Relationship difficulties, intimacy questions and communication problems are also within her scope of work. Her practice pays attention to background issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, attachment struggles and ageing-related concerns. She also works with people facing chronic pain, cancer, body image and eating or sleeping problems.
Autism and Asperger Syndrome, avoidant personality patterns and co-morbidity are listed as additional focus areas. In sessions Jean aims to listen without judgement and to follow each person’s concerns. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change, and solution-focused ideas to set small, practical goals.
Existential perspectives are used when people want to talk about meaning, values and life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and Jean accepts international clients. Practical formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, allowing people to choose what fits their life.
If someone prefers a conversational, respectful way of working, Jean offers that style and will adapt to individual needs.
Jean lists 4 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| 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 work online
Jean uses client-centred therapy to put the person’s experience first, listening carefully and following whatever matters most to them. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, relationship worries and other day-to-day difficulties by creating space to talk and feel heard.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. That method is useful for addictions, coping changes and situations where someone feels stuck and wants clear next steps. Solution-focused therapy complements these by helping set small, practical goals and building on what already works.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Jean will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and adapt the style as therapy progresses. That collaborative stance means approaches can shift if something isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, giving practical flexibility. Video suits longer conversations and visual connection, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat allows shorter check-ins and text-based messaging can fit around work or daytime commitments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping therapeutic focus and continuity.
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