Jennifer Southon

Hello. I welcome enquiries from individuals who would like to meet in person, in Pontypridd, or online. My hours of work are flexible so please ask if a particular time of day is best for you - although I do not usually work in Cardiff in the evening.

Very often, demands placed on us mean that we lose sight of our own needs. By taking time to talk about your life, counselling can help you to get back into contact with these lost areas. It can be helpful to talk about an issue to someone who is completely removed from your situation. In counselling you will find a safe and non-judgemental space in which to discuss anything you want to, confidentially.

My approaches are person centred and solution focussed. Both of these are respectful of the client’s view of what is going on and believe that the client has the strengths and resources to solve their problems. Counselling happens at your own pace and I would regularly check in with you about how you feel it is going and what is most helpful.

The counselling I offer is talking therapy, with some creative exercises if you are willing to do them. I also use solution focussed questions to help illuminate problem areas and identify patterns. I have experience in some additional areas not in the list below: narcissism, Munchausen’s syndrome and Munchausen’s by proxy. 

However complex your situation seems I would like to help you untangle knotty areas.

I can meet you in a comfortable therapy room in either Pontypridd or central Cardiff. 

In a first session I would like to focus on your situation and what the change you would like to happen in your life might look like. We might talk about how you see counselling helping with that.

If you choose to continue with counselling I would refer back to these themes often, to ensure that your counselling is continuing to be most helpful to you.