Jane Gracey, BACP

Jane Gracey is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She works in a straightforward way and aims to make sessions feel manageable for someone nervous about starting therapy.

She uses an adaptable, integrative approach that draws on Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That means conversations centre on the person's experience while also looking at thoughts and behaviours that maintain distress. Practical coping strategies and clearer ways of thinking are introduced when they suit the person.

Over a ten year career she has supported people to process difficult feelings and to build everyday coping skills. Areas she commonly helps with include caregiving stress, attachment and abandonment worries, codingpendency and control issues, separation and divorce, infidelity and the loneliness that can follow life changes.

Sessions also address questions about life purpose and midlife transitions, blended family challenges, and feelings of emptiness or lack of motivation. Jealousy is listed among the concerns she will work through with clients.

Jane emphasises the client as the expert in their own life and focuses on small, practical steps. She helps people notice strengths, practise new responses and try different ways of managing day-to-day strain.

How her approaches translate to online working

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping people feel understood. In practice this means sessions prioritise the client's experience and pace, with the counsellor reflecting concerns back and supporting the person's own choices and insights.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It often includes practical exercises and simple experiments to test unhelpful thinking and develop more helpful habits, which can be reviewed together in sessions.

Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Jane treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will help people decide whether a softer, reflective client-centred way or a more structured CBT focus fits their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the exact session formats before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support practical homework between sessions and let people return to skills learned at a time that suits them.