Janet Kwegan, BACP

Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with over 10 years' experience working across NHS services, hospices, bereavement support, perinatal mental health and community settings. She holds BACP accreditation and draws on a range of therapies to help people through difficult times. Janet speaks English and Yoruba and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Janet takes an existential, person-centred stance. She focuses on how each person experiences their life, relationships and values. Sessions aim to help people make sense of loss, stress, anxiety, relationship pain and big life changes. The work can include practical coping strategies as well as reflecting on identity and purpose.

Her background includes supporting people with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy and LGBT issues, and challenges such as sleep, eating and self-esteem. She also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and abandonment concerns. Her experience spans men’s counselling services, women’s centres and cancer support charities.

Janet uses approaches including Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. In practice she adapts techniques to what each person needs, combining skills and reflection rather than following a single method.

People who come to Janet often want both immediate help for distress and deeper work about life direction. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space to talk things through and to begin changes at a pace that feels manageable.

How Janet uses different approaches in online work

Janet draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. This can help when intimacy, abandonment or communication problems cause repeated patterns in relationships.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a practical approach that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and replace them with more helpful ones. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep difficulties and practical coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Janet will discuss your goals and try different methods to see what fits. The aim is collaborative: you and the therapist decide which techniques and topics to focus on as therapy progresses.

For online sessions, please confirm the formats directly before booking as the biography does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around busy days, reduce travel time and let people join from different locations. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or sessions that focus on practical skills without requiring you to be on camera for the whole time.