Jacqueline Isles, BACP

Jacqueline Isles is a BACP-registered counsellor with an MA in Counselling, specialising in marriage and family work. She supports adults, children, families and couples through both short-term and longer-term therapy, drawing on nearly two decades of experience to help people navigate relationship difficulties, parenting challenges and personal distress.

She is qualified to deliver parenting programmes such as Webster Stratton Incredible Years and Enhancing Adoptive Parenting, and she works with issues that commonly affect everyday life including stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, low self-esteem and coping with change. Jacqueline practices in a non-directive, client-led way, believing that each person is the expert on their own life and that therapy should follow the client’s pace and priorities.

Jacqueline creates a professional, compassionate and non-judgemental space where past experiences and current struggles can be explored. When difficulties from the past are affecting relationships with partners, friends or family, she offers therapeutic support to help people make sense of those patterns and find ways forward. Her approach places emphasis on care, understanding and practical support as part of the therapeutic process.

Client-Focused and Psychodynamic Support Online

Jacqueline uses client-centered therapy to place the client’s experience at the heart of the work. This approach involves active listening, empathic reflection and following the client’s lead to help them explore feelings, make decisions and build self-understanding - it is useful for relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and many forms of anxiety and life transition.

She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences and unconscious patterns may influence current relationships and behaviour. This perspective can help people understand recurring difficulties, unresolved grief or the ways early attachments affect adult life.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative process. Jacqueline will work with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the way she works as understanding grows over time.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls or phone appointments, and shorter or more immediate support can be provided through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to access consistent support around work, family life or geographical constraints while working with a registered professional.