Jacqueline LeydonBACP

Jacqueline Leydon is a counsellor who focuses on supporting people through pregnancy and childbirth-related concerns alongside many other life stresses. She writes from personal experience and aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable. Jacqueline welcomes straightforward conversation and practical support for day-to-day struggles.

She draws on eight years of practice and works in the United Kingdom. Jacqueline is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her background includes living experience of ADHD, autism, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, addiction and loss, which informs how she relates to clients.

Jacqueline uses a person-centred, integrative approach. That means the counselling is shaped around each person’s needs rather than following a single protocol. She combines elements from approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas where they fit the client’s goals.

Sessions typically focus on building trust, naming what matters, and finding small, practical steps forward. Jacqueline helps people talk through anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, intimacy issues, addiction concerns, ADHD-related challenges and relationship difficulties.

Her additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, caregiver stress, communication and control problems, dissociation, and coping after separation or violence. Jacqueline aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space to explore feelings and practical next steps.

How Jacqueline uses therapy approaches online

Jacqueline combines person-centred work with structured approaches to help clients in clear ways. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts without getting caught up in them and committing to actions that match your values, which can help with anxiety and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns from early relationships and how they affect current trust and intimacy, useful for people wrestling with abandonment or attachment concerns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to reduce distress and improve sleep or mood.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jacqueline will listen to what matters to you, talk through options, and adapt methods to fit your needs, goals and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.

For practical online work, confirm the current session formats before booking since they are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins if needed, and remove travel time. They also make it simpler to include flexibility around childcare or work breaks while still keeping focused therapeutic time.