Jessica Gibbons
Practical counselling for stress and relationships
About Jessica
Jessica Gibbons welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or relationship problems. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to help people make changes that last. Jessica uses simple, practical skills alongside attentive listening to help clients feel understood and more steady.
She trained as a counsellor and holds the NCPS credential, which she uses to guide her work in the United Kingdom. Jessica draws on person-centred principles that place the client’s experience at the centre of each session.
Background and approach
She also offers cognitive behavioural techniques when clients want practical tools to manage thoughts and feelings. Sessions are described by Jessica as calm and down-to-earth. She focuses on clear communication and short-term goals when that fits a person’s needs.
She supports people dealing with trauma and bereavement as well as long-standing worries such as low self-esteem or chronic stress. Jessica has three years of clinical experience. During that time she has worked with concerns including attachment issues, body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress and communication problems.
She also has experience supporting people affected by autism and abandonment worries. Her approach is collaborative: she listens first, then offers options people can try between sessions. Practical coping strategies and steady emotional support are combined so clients can test what helps and build on what works for them.
What Jessica works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Jessica combines person-centred counselling and cognitive behavioural techniques in ways that are easy to use online. Person-centred work focuses on listening, validation and helping someone voice what matters most. It is useful for grief, low mood and feeling stuck. Cognitive behavioural techniques teach straightforward skills to test and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can help with anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and suggest options to try together. That way the client and therapist can adjust the plan as progress is made and choose what feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people see and hear each other and is good for fuller conversations. Phone sessions can be lower on bandwidth and easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing written reflection without being on camera. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, care duties and daily life.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
