About Jonathan
Jonathan Wilkes offers a client-centred approach that focuses on listening and building trust. He uses practical talking and reflective work to help people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and major life changes. Jonathan brings four years of counselling experience alongside wider work with people who have faced complex mental health challenges.
He blends client-centred care with structured techniques such as cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy when these suit the person.
How Jonathan works
Sessions often include simple skills for emotional regulation, ways to spot and shift unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness practices to ease tension. Jonathan also draws on solution-focused ideas to help people set and reach realistic goals. People come for help with grief, relationship problems, addictions, trauma and abuse, eating issues, anger, career worries and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas he supports include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, codependency, control issues, dissociation, shame and life purpose. He works at each person’s pace and encourages honest, steady exploration. Jonathan holds a BACP accreditation, a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology.
He also has training in regression therapy and yoga teaching. These influences feed into a flexible, person-focused practice that adapts to what a client needs. Sessions are offered online by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
To begin, people follow the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Jonathan lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Jonathan works with
The areas below are the ones Jonathan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Jonathan uses client-centred therapy, which focuses on being heard and understood first. This approach helps people who feel stuck, low in self-worth, or unsure where to begin because the therapist listens without judgement and follows the person’s lead.He also uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and test practical alternatives. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression and repetitive negative thoughts because it gives clear steps and exercises to change how you think and act.
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills are another tool he offers, teaching straightforward techniques for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive responses. These skills can help with emotional flooding, anger and self-soothing when things feel overwhelming.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. Jonathan will work with each person to decide what fits best, trying practical methods early and adapting as goals change. He checks in regularly so the work stays relevant to what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be a simpler low-data option, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. This range helps people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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