About Jessica
Jessica Sullivan is a counsellor with 20 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She draws on long experience to help people take practical steps when life feels overwhelming. Jessica listens carefully and works in a straightforward way so clients know what to expect.
She offers care with compassion as people try new ways of coping and understanding themselves. Jessica originally trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and often explores how early life and attachment shape current patterns.
How Jessica works
That approach helps when difficulties seem rooted in long-standing themes such as abandonment or attachment issues. For shorter-term work she uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify small, achievable goals and move people forward from a specific problem.
Her work has included workplace counselling, so she understands how personal problems can affect work and how work stress or traumatic workplace incidents can affect someone’s life. She also supports people dealing with serious health concerns, including emotional responses to cancer and the lifestyle changes linked to diabetes management.
Jessica uses outcome measures such as the GAD-7, PHQ-9, HADS and IES-R as part of an initial assessment when helpful. These tools help track symptoms and guide the early steps of therapy. She also has experience with grief, self-harm and suicidal ideation, and complex issues like domestic violence and substance misuse.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy difficulties, eating and body-image issues, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, stress and anxiety, and compassion fatigue. Jessica helps people work through communication and commitment problems and supports those coping with separation or bereavement.
Jessica lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Jessica works with
The areas below are the ones Jessica selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How psychodynamic and solution-focused work online
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that begin in early life and show up now. Online sessions can be used to gently uncover attachment themes, abandonment fears and long-standing relationship patterns so people can make different choices in daily life.Solution-Focused Therapy is forward looking and practical. It concentrates on clear, achievable goals and small steps that help when someone wants to move on from a current problem such as stress, work difficulties or a relationship setback.
Finding the right approach is something the therapist will do together with the client. Jessica will discuss goals, history and preferences and adapt the method to what feels most helpful. That collaborative decision can change over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer sessions. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat or messaging can be useful for brief updates, reflective notes between sessions or for those who prefer not to use a camera. These options help people fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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