Janine Kennedy, NCPS

Janine Kennedy is a counsellor and psychotherapist with NCPS accreditation and ten years of experience. She offers personalised care that responds to what each person brings to sessions. Janine aims to help people find clearer thinking, better coping tools and steadier emotional ground.

Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression and addictions. She also supports people dealing with relationship difficulties, eating and body image concerns, grief and trauma. Practical matters such as career stress, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges are part of her caseload too.

Janine draws on a small set of well established approaches. She uses client-centred conversation to follow what matters most to the person. Cognitive behavioural ideas help identify and adjust unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness techniques help build steadiness and present-moment awareness.

Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Janine uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when helpful to set realistic steps and maintain momentum. She emphasises clear, achievable tools rather than lengthy theory.

People come for help with family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment worries, communication and commitment problems, and practical concerns such as chronic illness or caregiving stress. Janine also supports those working through domestic violence, separation and eating-related problems. Her approach is adaptable to each person’s circumstances and priorities.

How Janine’s approaches translate to online therapy

Janine uses client-centred work to follow what matters most to the person. That means sessions start with open listening and exploring your priorities, then shape the work around your goals. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises to change feelings and behaviour. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to build steadiness and reduce reactivity.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with the person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as progress is made.

The biography describes bespoke online therapy but does not name specific formats, so confirm the available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around job or family commitments, reduce travel time and allow check-ins during a lunch break or quieter part of the day. Some techniques translate well to remote sessions, such as thought records, brief behavioural experiments and guided mindfulness exercises, which can be practiced between appointments to support ongoing change.