About Jen
Jen Woodward is a counsellor with seven years' direct therapeutic experience and a total of eleven years working in mental health settings. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and draws on psychodynamic ways of working to help people understand recurring patterns. She aims to be calm, patient and curious in sessions.
Jen offers a space to talk about stress, anxiety and relationship worries.
How Jen works
She also helps with trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, intimacy-related issues and parenting strains. Other areas she supports include ADHD, self-esteem, career questions and coping with life changes. Psychodynamic therapy with Jen focuses on how past experiences shape present feelings and behaviours.
Sessions look at repeated patterns and unconscious thoughts so clients can better understand themselves. The work is conversational and reflective rather than directive. People can expect a steady, exploratory style that values noticing thoughts and feelings as they come up.
This approach can feel challenging at times because it asks people to face parts of themselves they usually avoid. Jen stays patient and grounded while guiding that process. Sessions are offered in English and occur online through a range of formats.
The subscription model used for sessions can be cancelled at any time and cost varies by location and therapist availability. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match clients before scheduling.
Jen lists one way of working on the entry:
What Jen works with
The areas below are the ones Jen 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Psychodynamic work and online therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past relationships and early experiences influence current feelings and behaviours. It helps people spot repeated patterns and unconscious thoughts that affect their daily life and relationships.Working this way usually involves reflective conversations about memories, emotions and the connections between them. This approach can be useful for issues such as anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and problems with self-esteem.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jen will collaborate with each person to agree which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. Together they will review progress and adjust the focus if something else would be more helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are close to face-to-face contact, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break, live chat can be helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and distance from services.
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