Sarah Jennings

I currently am able to offer online or telephone counselling between the hours of 10- 8pm: Monday-Thursday.

I am able to offer face to face sessions Tuesday-Thursday 10-4pm. 

I am an experienced integrative counsellor.I am also a warm, empathetic and caring human being. I see counselling as a journey we take together. A journey of self discovery, healing, self compassion and building inner strength.

I have worked in schools for over 30 years supporting staff and students and most recently that has been as a school counsellor in a local grammar school. I have also been involved with a number of charities including a bereavement charity supporting adults and children coping with a loved ones terminal diagnosis or supporting through the grief of the loss of a loved one.

I have worked with many different people who have faced a variety of difficulties. Through their counselling journey with me they have been able to begin to understand themselves better, heal and look towards the future with hope and resilience. 

I aim to provide a calm, safe and comfortable space for you to be able to explore whatever is troubling you. The relationship between us is at the core of this. 

As an integrative counsellor and as an adult who has experienced many challenges in my own life I am able to draw on a variety of different ways of working. At the core of this is understanding, empathy and warmth. 

We face many challenges and issues in our life, sometimes they are from something in our past and we are blocked, sometimes it can be something in the here and now that we need to learn coping strategies for. Sometimes going back to the past and exploring this through inner child work and healing that wounded child, or exploring the issue such as anxiety as a part and understanding where it came from is useful. Healing that part and building inner strength and beginning to love yourself. 

I believe the therapeutic relationship is at the core of counselling. It is important that you feel safe and comfortable with me. I offer a 30 minute free consultation so that we can get to know each other, discuss what you might like to explore in the sessions and this will give you the chance to decide if you would like us to work together. 

My sessions are an hour long and in the first hour session we would complete an assessment and discuss what you would like to explore in our sessions together. We will possibly discuss ways that this could be covered, how I work and we may set some goals. These will be regularly reviewed and are not set in stone. Counselling is very fluid and often other things will come up as the relationship develops.