Jackie Garratt

Jackie Garratt is a professionally qualified Counsellor and Life Coach with eight years of clinical experience supporting people toward improved mental health and wellbeing. She works from the belief that individuals can grow through what they go through, and she supports clients in finding their own pathways from distress toward greater value and purpose.

Jackie creates a non-judgmental, therapeutic, confidential space where people can feel safe to explore what matters to them. She works collaboratively to build understanding of present feelings and their origins, and to identify practical, personalised steps for moving from where a person is now to where they want to be.

Her training includes registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and further post-qualifying work focused on counselling young people and supporting survivors of sexual violence. Jackie is also a qualified Life Coach, which adds coaching tools for addressing mindset and limiting self-beliefs alongside counselling work.

Jackie’s main clinical stance is Person-Centred, and she integrates a range of approaches such as cognitive-behavioural techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to suit each client. She is known for a warm, down-to-earth presence and a calm, compassionate manner, and she adapts sessions creatively and flexibly to meet individual needs.

Before qualifying as a counsellor and coach, Jackie worked extensively in community roles supporting children, adults and families. Her previous posts include youth and support work, foster caring, and coordinating a women’s project that provided specialised support to women affected by domestic abuse, sexual assault and childhood trauma. Jackie’s experience also covers working with complex mental health presentations, personality disorders, Autism, ADHD and chronic health conditions. She is able to include Christian counselling when requested, and she also works with people of other faiths or no faith background.