Jacqueline Branfield
Compassionate psychotherapist blending practical approaches
About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Branfield is a psychotherapist, counsellor and hypnotherapist with eight years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma or low self-esteem. Jacqueline writes plainly and listens closely to understand what a person is facing now.
She uses a blend of approaches tailored to each person. That can include attachment-focused work to look at early relationship patterns, client-centred listening to reflect what matters most to the client, and cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness exercises are also used when they fit the persons goals. Jacqueline has worked in schools and as a consulting therapeutic practitioner, which informs how she explains issues and practical steps. Sessions are adjusted for pace and sensory needs, and she pays attention to neuro-diversity where relevant.
The aim is to make the process accessible and respectful for each person. In sessions she focuses on calming the nervous system and easing overthinking. Clients are helped to notice and gently challenge their inner critic, and to build small, steady changes that improve day-to-day wellbeing.
Work often centres on attachment wounds, abandonment fears, communication and family of origin issues. People also bring concerns such as body image, addiction, dissociation, eating and food-related issues, codependency and commitment worries. Jacqueline welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
What Jacqueline works with
How Jacqueline works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Jacqueline commonly uses attachment-based work, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural ideas in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current trust and intimacy, helping with fears of abandonment and problems with connection. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement, letting the client set the pace and topics while the counsellor reflects what matters most. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, then tests and changes them with practical exercises.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will discuss goals and preferences and suggest what to try first. Together they check what helps and adapt methods over time so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use body language and tone, while phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, step-by-step planning or when writing helps to organise thoughts. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into different routines and lifestyles.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
