Jill Fardell

There are many reasons for seeking counselling support. It may be a significant, life changing event or it may simply be that you have come to a point in life when you know things have to change, but don’t know exactly why or how to go about it.

At these times it can help to talk to someone other than friends and family, about how you're feeling - and may have been feeling for some time.

Counselling offers a safe and confidential space in which you can acknowledge, explore and work through your difficulties and find a way forward. 

It is important to find a counsellor you feel comfortable to work with, because it is the relationship between you that enables the process to work for you.

As a psychodynamic counsellor, I am interested in exploring the links between the past and the present. We can’t change the past, but understanding it and how it continues to influence us,  can help make sense of how we are now. 

I have been practising for 12 years, during which time I have had the privilege of working with people of different ages, abilities and stages of life.

Some of the issues I have helped with include: Aging. bereavement, anxiety, living with ADHD, ADD and OCD, depression, relationship difficulties including between parent and adult-child, loss and grief, redundancy, becoming a carer for a significant other, making sense of and coming to terms with a difficult past, coming to terms with and living with a life-changing or life-limiting disorder, low self-esteem, poor motivation, feeling stuck and unfulfilled.

In our sessions, we will work at your pace on whatever you bring to counselling or whatever comes to mind during the sessions.

My role is to support and enable you to achieve what you want from therapy and find the way forward.

I offer open-ended and time limited therapy, working online through an approved telemedicine platform which is simple, reliable and very secure. Working online enables me to offer counselling to clients of all abilities across the UK and abroad.  It also offers more flexibility if clients are away from home. 

As a member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) my work is underpinned by the BACP Ethical Guidelines for good practice. I have regular supervision of my practice and maintain and develop my knowledge and skills through Continuing Professional Development.

I have full indemnity insurance.

I offer an initial 30 minute session free of charge.  This provides an opportunity for you to discuss what is bringing you to therapy; for you to ask questions about how I work, and whether you feel I could be the right person for you.