About Jennifer
Jennifer Risebury is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, low mood and life changes. She offers a calm, non-judgemental way of working and aims to make first steps into therapy easier. Jennifer uses practical, person-centred methods to help clients reflect and build coping skills.
Jennifer keeps sessions collaborative and straightforward. She listens to what matters to each person and adapts her approach to fit their situation.
How Jennifer works
Sessions include talking through feelings, noticing patterns, and trying small steps to change how everyday difficulties are handled. She works with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, addictions and relationship and intimacy-related difficulties. Additional areas she addresses include parenting stresses, sleep and eating issues, career matters, ADHD, compassion fatigue and body image.
Jennifer also supports people affected by chronic illness, caring responsibilities and adoption or foster care histories. Her style blends attachment-based ideas with emotionally-focused and solution-focused techniques. Mindfulness practices are used where helpful to reduce reactivity and improve calm.
The goal is practical progress rather than labels - learning ways to manage emotions and improve connection with self and others. Jennifer offers flexible session formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. She replies to messages and journal entries during the day and aims to respond after 8:30 pm the next morning if needed.
Sessions are scheduled to suit different routines and time zones.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Jennifer uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in relationships and how early experiences shape feelings today. This approach can be useful when difficulties involve trust, connection or repeating relationship problems.She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy, which helps people tune into and name difficult feelings and learn new ways to express them. That work is often helpful for managing intense emotions and improving how someone connects with others. Jennifer combines these with client-centred listening so the pace and focus match each person's needs.
Deciding which approach to use is part of the work together. She will talk through goals and preferences in early sessions and adapt methods as needs become clearer. This is a collaborative process and can shift over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can suit short check-ins, journalling-style conversations or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different time zones.
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