Service Overview
Individual Adult Counselling
Navigating Belonging Across Borders

How Sessions Are Delivered
Online: Sessions are held via Google Meets, allowing you to connect comfortably from your own space anywhere across the UK/ HK.
In-Person: In-person therapy in Digbeth Custard Factory. If you prefer meeting in person, please let me know when getting in touch, and we can explore availability.
Duration
I provide both short and long-term therapy. I usually recommend starting with six weekly sessions minimum and then reviewing if you'd like to continue into longer term work after those first six sessions. We can discuss the planned duration of our work together during our initial session.
Returning clients, welcome to book in drop in sessions.
Fees & Investment
Sessions are 50 minutes.
Daytime sessions: £60
Evening sessions (after 5pm): £65
Payment is due before each session begins. I ask for 72 hours' notice if you need to cancel or reschedule; sessions cancelled with less notice than this are charged in full.
I believe therapy should be as accessible as possible. A limited number of reduced-fee spaces are available, depending on availability. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this.
I offer a free 15-20 minute initial conversation so we can talk through what you're looking for and see whether we feel like a good fit.


The Heart of Our Work
How We’ll Work Together
My approach is deeply relational and trauma-informed, drawing from somatic awareness to help you safely reconnect with your body’s signals. We don't just talk through problems; we gently explore how your history lives in the present, fostering self-compassion along the way.
What Sessions Are Like
In our first few sessions, our priority is building trust. We start by getting to know where you are now and identifying what 'safety' looks like for you. There is no pressure to dive into difficult narratives immediately, we begin exactly where you feel comfortable.
Moving at Your Pace
Healing is a collaborative process, not a quick fix. We move at a pace that respects your nervous system's capacity for change. By prioritising your boundaries and comfort, we ensure that the progress we make is sustainable and deeply rooted in genuine safety.
The Approaches In My Toolbox
Person-Centred
This means offering a warm, non-judgemental space where you can talk openly and be heard. I trust that, with the right support, you can begin to understand yourself more deeply and move towards change at your own pace.
Gestalt
Gestalt therapy focuses on your present-moment experience, recognising that you do not exist in isolation. We are always in conversation with our environment, including the societal, cultural, and systemic structures around us. Together, we will notice how these wider pressures and life experiences show up in your immediate thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, helping you unpack how you relate to yourself, others, and the world.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past experiences, particularly how early relationships may be shaping how you feel and respond today. We may explore these patterns if this is something you are open to. This is often where the unconscious, becomes conscious.
Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Traditional CBT often focuses on trying to "fix", challenge, or change your thoughts. I prefer using third-wave CBT, which focuses on mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion. Your thoughts and reactions are treated as rational, protective responses to the world you have had to navigate. Instead of debating your own reality, this is about learning to relate to your experiences with kindness, building genuine resilience while fully validating your lived experience.
Somatic Healing
Somatic healing is a gentle, body-based approach that beautifully complements traditional talking therapy. Long before modern Western psychology rediscovered the mind-body connection, somatic practices were the ancestral ways of living, healing, and moving through the world. Trauma, systemic stress, and anxiety don’t just live in our thoughts, they are physically held in our bodies. Reclaiming these embodied roots allows space to process emotional distress, release "trapped" tension, and gently tune into and support your nervous system.

"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul."
Carl Jung
What We Can Work On Together
These themes often overlap and intersect, you don't need a specific diagnosis, label, or neatly defined category to bring any part of your experience to therapy.
Anxiety, stress, and burnout
Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or stuck
Neurodivergence
Self identified or diagnosed ADHD, Autism, and navigating a neurotypical world
Identity, culture, and diaspora
Intergenerational experiences, belonging, and sense of self

Relationships and self-esteem
Feeling disconnected, boundary work, low self-esteem, or processing past experiences

If you have experienced overwhelming events, whether they were singular moments of crisis or long-term, repeated experiences in childhood or relationships, you might feel like your body and mind are constantly on "high alert."
Trauma isn't just a memory; it’s something the nervous system carries that is experienced in the present moment. I provide a trauma-informed space where we work at a pace that feels safe for you. We won't dive into painful memories before you have the tools to stay grounded and attuned. We can work together on:
• Flashbacks and Intrusive Thoughts: Reducing the intensity of "re-living" the past.
• Hypervigilance: Helping your nervous system move out of constant "fight, flight, or freeze" mode.
• Relational Trauma (C-PTSD): Healing the impact of long-term emotional neglect or complex family dynamics.
• Dissociation: Finding ways to feel more present and "in your body" safely.
• Shame and Self-Blame: Shifting the narrative from "What is wrong with me?" to "What happened to me?"
Specialised Support for Trauma &
C-PTSD
Trauma-Informed Framework (Judith Herman)
Safety is the foundation of our work. The approach I practice to trauma is:
1. Stabilisation First: We focus on grounding techniques and emotional "first aid" so you feel resourced in your daily life.
2. Processing (When Ready): Only when you feel secure do we begin to gently process traumatic events to take the "sting" out of the memories.
3. Integration: Helping you reconnect with a sense of self that exists outside of your trauma.
Please Note
Immediate Support
While Jess is here to support your therapeutic journey, this space is not equipped for emergency crisis intervention. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact your regional emergency services or a dedicated crisis helpline right away.
Emergency Services:
UK: 999 | Hong Kong: 999
Crisis Support Helplines:
UK: Samaritans: 116 123
UK: 0845 46 47
UK HOPELINE: 0800 068 4141 - if you or someone you know is experiencing thoughts of suicide, call for free confidential support or TEXT on 88247
Hong Kong: https://www.shallwetalk.hk/en/get-help/emergency-helplines/

Business Hours
I normally work Tuesday to Thursday during the day, but if you need an earlier morning or evening slot, please let me know and I'll do my best to accommodate you.
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 09:00 am – 07:30 pm
- Wed – Thu
- 09:00 am – 06:00 pm
- Fri – Sun
- Closed