Jackie Garratt, BACP

Jackie Garratt is a professionally qualified Counsellor and Life Coach who supports people to rebuild wellbeing and move forward from distressing life experiences. With training as a counsellor and additional post-qualifying studies to work with young people and survivors of sexual violence, she combines therapeutic skill with practical coaching to address mindsets and limiting self-beliefs.

Jackie offers a warm, down-to-earth presence and a calm, compassionate manner that helps people feel accepted and at ease. She creates a non-judgmental therapeutic space where clients can explore feelings, triggers, and life history, and together they work to increase understanding of what is happening and identify personally meaningful steps toward change.

Her approach is person-centred at its core, integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Solution-Focused techniques so sessions can be adapted to each person’s needs. Jackie has professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the UK body for counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, and she is also qualified as a Life Coach.

Before qualifying as a counsellor she worked extensively supporting children, adults and families, including roles as a youth and support worker, foster carer and women’s project coordinator for survivors of domestic abuse and childhood trauma. Her experience includes working with a wide range of issues such as trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, ADHD and autism, relationship and parenting challenges, chronic health conditions, and grief. Jackie can also offer Christian counselling for clients who wish to include their faith in sessions while also working respectfully with people of other or no faith backgrounds.