Janine Ellis, BACP

Janine Ellis helps adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, or big life changes. She is named Janine in sessions and keeps things straightforward and human. Her style aims to make hard conversations feel approachable and useful from the first meeting.

Janine trained in integrative counselling and holds a Master’s degree with distinction in Integrative Counselling. She is a BACP member, which reflects the professional standards she follows in practice. Her work draws on different therapy ideas to match what each person needs.

Before counselling, Janine spent twenty years in the music industry. That background informs her work with musicians and music industry workers who need support that understands the pressures of that world. She also sees people with everyday worries and complex life issues alike.

Her approach is mainly relational and person-centred, which means she focuses on building trust and working without judgement. She combines this with techniques from mindfulness, psychodynamic thinking, attachment ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when these fit the person’s goals.

In sessions she offers a collaborative way of working. Clients set priorities and she adapts methods to suit each person. The aim is to help people notice what matters to them, make clearer choices, and find small steps that move life in a better direction.

How Janine’s approaches translate to online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small committed steps towards those values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes where action can feel stuck.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current ways of relating. It can help with intimacy issues, abandonment worries and communication problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Janine works together with clients to choose which methods feel most helpful based on their goals and preferences. That means techniques may change over time as needs evolve.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as avoiding travel or arranging shorter check-ins around work. The exact session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, remote sessions can support continuity of care, let people join from different locations within the United Kingdom, and allow clients to use tools like mindful exercises or written reflections between meetings.