About Jenny
Jenny Cleary is a counsellor who blends a person-centred approach with practical therapies. She uses clear, gentle language and meets clients where they are. Her style is direct when needed and sensitive to each person’s pace.
She has nine years of experience and works from an integrative perspective. That means she draws on several evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to the person in front of her. Sessions often begin by looking at values and what matters most to the client.
How Jenny works
Jenny supports people coping with stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps those dealing with trauma and abuse, relationship or intimacy concerns, and addiction-related worries. Other areas she addresses include self-esteem, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, compassion fatigue, and career-related stress.
Her additional focus areas include attachment issues, adoptive and foster care matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, codependency and caregiver strain. She works with people facing chronic illness or pain, cancer-related distress, and major life changes that disrupt daily living. Jenny holds NCPS as a credential and is based in the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. She offers a range of online formats to suit different needs and schedules. Her approach aims to connect thoughts, feelings and bodily experience.
In practical terms this means exploring values, learning coping skills, and trying small changes that fit into everyday life. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Jenny lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Jenny works with
The areas below are the ones Jenny selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- 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
- 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
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match what matters to you. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Both approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, stress and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be a joint decision. The therapist will listen to your goals, try out techniques, and adjust methods based on what works best for you. Clients often mix strategies from different approaches so the work fits their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are suited to deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when video is not convenient, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or steady support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel, and they allow people to continue therapy while living in different countries.
Start online instead of waiting
Our partner service asks a few questions about what you are looking for and matches you with a therapist for sessions from home.
Book with JennyWe will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.
Common questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her therapeutic style?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What session formats are available?
How are fees handled?
How do I begin working with her?
A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. Entries are not assessed or endorsed by this directory.
Other entries for stress, anxiety
Supportive LCSW helping people build strength and clarity
Practical, trauma-aware therapy for everyday life
Practical, relational therapy for life transitions