About Jennifer
Jennifer Anderson is a counsellor with seven years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and bipolar symptoms, and supports those dealing with addictions and grief. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, LGBT-related issues, and parenting strains.
Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and recognising their strengths. She uses a client-centred stance that puts the person's goals first, alongside attachment-focused ideas that look at how past relationships affect current patterns.
How Jennifer works
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours when that is useful. Sessions are straightforward and practical. Conversations aim to make sense of difficult feelings, try small changes, and build coping strategies for day-to-day life.
She pays attention to how loss, trauma and addiction can shape emotional responses and decision making. Jennifer also works with issues such as abandonment and attachment wounds, body image and chronic illness, codependency and communication problems. She will talk through how these topics connect to current struggles and suggest ways to move forward.
Her training includes registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. People can expect calm, respectful conversations and practical steps to try between meetings.
Jennifer lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Jennifer works with
The areas below are the ones Jennifer selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
How attachment, client-centred and CBT work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online conversations help identify patterns born from past bonds and explore ways to feel safer in close relationships.Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own goals and pace. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said and helps people make sense of their experience without pushing solutions. This approach is useful for many concerns, including self-esteem, grief and coming to terms with life changes.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions. Online sessions can teach simple exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours between meetings, which suits anxiety, mood and stress-related difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, then suggest which methods to try. Plans can be adjusted as work goes on so the approach fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online work is offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people read non-verbal cues and have deeper conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed, while chat and messaging suit brief updates or steady support between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible around work, family and travel.
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