Janet Kwegan

Janet Kwegan is a family-oriented therapist and counsellor based in the United Kingdom with over 10 years' experience working across healthcare and community settings. She has supported people through roles in the NHS, a women’s centre, a hospice, a bereavement agency, a perinatal mental health charity, a cancer support centre and a men’s counselling service.

She has training in a range of therapeutic approaches and will draw on whatever is most helpful for each person. Her formal training includes CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), person-centred work and phenomenological approaches, which she combines to create an effective, tailored way of working.

Janet’s practice is informed by an existential outlook. Rather than judging emotional suffering, she focuses on how each person uniquely experiences the world. She helps people explore their lives in relation to relationships, identity, values, choices and sense of purpose.

She works with a wide range of difficulties, including relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, stress and anxiety, addictions, LGBT and intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and anger, self-esteem, career questions, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She also supports people negotiating life transitions, making difficult choices, and those in non-traditional relationships. Janet works with clients from diverse backgrounds and across different faiths, beliefs and political views, and she identifies as a therapist of colour.

Whether someone seeks help in a moment of distress or wants to deepen understanding of themselves, Janet offers a safe and supportive space to make sense of what is troubling them. If a person is ready to begin, she is prepared to work alongside them through change and recovery.