Jodi Smith

Jodi Smith is a qualified person-centred counsellor with 10 years of experience supporting a wide range of people to manage their mental health and improve their wellbeing. She has worked both digitally and face to face, and has experience offering telephone and text-based support as well.

She is passionate about mental health and does not frame people as having only good or bad mental health or fixed “problems”. Jodi sees mental health as fluid - something that changes over time and need not define a person entirely. At the same time, she acknowledges how difficult it can be to cope when wellbeing feels out of balance.

Drawing on compassion and empathy, Jodi facilitates reflective conversations that aim to help clients understand themselves, their circumstances and their behaviours more clearly. She works from the premise that each person knows themselves best and aims to help uncover what is needed to reach the client’s goals.

Jodi holds a Level 4 diploma in therapeutic counselling and has completed training in coaching and mentoring. She is currently undertaking further qualifications in clinical supervision, reflecting her experience and seniority within the counselling field. She is committed to ongoing professional development, including recent training in safeguarding, working online, trauma-informed practice and goal-focused work.

When working with clients she draws on her formal training, her personal experience and a genuine curiosity about the individual in front of her. Jodi works ethically and is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She welcomes enquiries from those who would like to know more about her approach and how she works.