About Jean
Jean Briscoe is a counsellor with BACP registration and over 20 years' experience in the United Kingdom. She has worked across the NHS, independent practice and employee assistance programmes. Jean focuses on helping people manage difficult life events and long-term challenges with a direct, respectful approach.
She tends to work in a person-centred way, bringing in cognitive behavioural and solution-focused tools when useful. Sessions move at the client’s pace and aim to explore the underlying issues that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Jean emphasises honesty, flexibility and non-judgemental listening in every meeting. Her background includes work with people affected by disability, chronic illness such as multiple sclerosis, and limb amputation. She also has experience supporting people around trauma, domestic violence, eating and body image concerns, and issues linked to LGBT identity.
Jean is practiced in addressing mood concerns like anxiety, depression and bipolar difficulties, and in helping people cope with grief, anger, stress and life changes. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strains and career questions. She uses attachment-based ideas alongside mindfulness and emotionally focused approaches when they fit the client’s needs.
Practical aims often include clearer communication, better daily coping and steps towards chosen goals. To begin, readers are invited to make contact and follow the booking steps provided on the site.
What Jean works with
Everything Jean lists, in their own terms. LGBT is the reason Jean is listed here; the rest shows what else Jean works with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jean lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Jean’s approaches translate to online work
Jean often draws on client-centred practice, cognitive behavioural therapy and attachment-based ideas. Client-centred work means the counsellor follows the client’s lead, offers non-judgemental listening and helps the person set their own goals. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and uses straightforward exercises to change unhelpful routines and reduce symptoms. Attachment-based ideas focus on how early relationships shape current patterns and help people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jean will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean combining gentle, reflective conversation with practical CBT tasks or mindfulness practices across sessions.
The practical benefits of online therapy can include easier scheduling around work and family life, fewer travel needs and more flexibility for shorter check-ins or regular sessions. The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so readers should confirm the available options when booking. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these approaches to a range of circumstances, helping clients practise skills and make steady progress without needing to attend in person.
Questions people ask about Jean
What concerns does Jean commonly help with?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, depression, eating and body image concerns, and LGBT-related matters.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Jean practises a person-centred approach and blends in cognitive behavioural and solution-focused methods. She aims for practical, manageable steps that clients can use between sessions.
How long has she been practising?
She has 20 years of experience working across the NHS, independent practice and employee assistance programmes.
Where is she based and what credential does she hold?
She works in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counsellors & Psychotherapists, listed as BACP.
Which languages are sessions available in?
Sessions are offered in English and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography does not specify session formats; please confirm the current session options before booking.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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