Jessica Douglas, BACP

Jessica Douglas is a BACP-registered psychotherapeutic counsellor who offers an approachable, integrative way of working with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and a wide range of life challenges. She practices as an assimilative, integrative therapist, placing Transactional Analysis at the heart of her work while drawing selectively on other evidence-based techniques to tailor a treatment plan to each person’s needs. This flexible stance means sessions are shaped around the individual rather than a fixed protocol, and the focus tends to be on building understanding, exploring patterns such as attachment or abandonment concerns, and developing practical coping strategies for issues like panic, relationship difficulties, trauma, addiction and mood disorders.

Jessica describes the therapeutic relationship as a conversation between two people informed by their lived experience. She aims to listen with curiosity and reflection, offering space to tell one’s story and make sense of what is happening. She is comfortable offering different formats of support - single-session work, brief packages over six to eight weeks, or longer-term psychotherapy when indicated - and she discusses goals and the therapeutic contract during initial planning.

Her core working hours are typically 10am to 7pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with evening and weekend appointments available on request. As a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Jessica follows professional ethical expectations, and she will communicate with clients if illness affects her ability to run sessions so they can decide whether to reschedule or postpone.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online support

Jessica uses Transactional Analysis as a core model, which helps people examine communication styles, internal patterns and the roles they adopt in relationships, making it useful for issues like relationship conflict, attachment concerns and self-esteem. She also works from an assimilative integrative perspective, blending techniques from different evidence-based methods so interventions are tailored to the individual’s needs - this flexibility supports work on anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma-related concerns. Jessica is also experienced offering focused short-term options and single-session work, which can be suitable for people seeking immediate tools or a structured brief plan for specific goals.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jessica collaborates with each person to assess their goals, preferences and life context, and together they decide whether a brief or longer course of therapy and which techniques will best support progress. This collaborative stance aims to match method to need rather than applying one fixed model.

Online therapy with Jessica is available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while maintaining continuity of care and access to registered professionals who can guide the therapeutic work.