About Jessica
Jessica Sullivan is a counsellor with 20 years of clinical experience. She trained originally as a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and now combines longer-term psychodynamic work with shorter, forward-looking approaches. She aims to help people draw on their own strengths so they can make changes that improve day-to-day life.
Jessica keeps sessions practical and direct. She listens for patterns that come from earlier relationships and helps people see how those patterns affect current concerns.
Background and approach
When a brief focus is needed she uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify small, workable steps that move things forward. Her background includes workplace counselling, so she understands how personal problems and work issues interact. She also supports people affected by workplace trauma and helps those dealing with the emotional sides of long-term health conditions such as diabetes and cancer.
Jessica may use standard measures such as the GAD-7, PHQ-9, HADS or IES-R during an initial assessment to clarify needs and track progress. Her clinical work covers grief, stress and anxiety, mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar, eating and body-image concerns, intimacy and relationship issues, and trauma-related problems.
She also offers supervision and has experience with matters that touch the legal process, patient recall, and workplace grievance. Jessica works with clients who identify as LGBT and can discuss identity-related concerns as part of therapy.
What Jessica works with
Everything Jessica lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Jessica is listed here; the rest shows what else Jessica works with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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 problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Jessica lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How psychodynamic and solution-focused work translate online
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns from earlier relationships and how they show up now. Online sessions can provide the same chance to talk through repeated feelings and responses, helping people notice and reflect on those patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy is goal-directed and practical, focusing on small steps and what would look different as things improve; this suits brief targeted work over a series of appointments.Finding the right approach is a shared task. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences at the start and check in regularly to see what is helping. Many people try a slightly different mix of methods until they find what fits their needs and pace.
Confirm the exact session formats available before booking as the biography does not specify formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, health appointments, or family life. It can allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, or offer sessions without the need to travel. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt psychodynamic reflection and solution-focused planning to an online setting while working with the client to agree how best to structure sessions.
Questions people ask about Jessica
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, stress and anxiety, mood problems such as depression and bipolar, eating and body image concerns, and work-related difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She blends psychodynamic work that looks at patterns from earlier relationships with solution-focused techniques for shorter-term, goal-oriented work.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has practised as a therapist for 20 years and has experience in workplace counselling, trauma work, and supporting people through illness and bereavement.
What credentials does she hold and where does she practise?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her in a language other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start therapy with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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