My clients’ view of our counselling experience

"I regularly met with Jessica over a six-month period where she helped me to move through a traumatic situation with my family. She helped me to lift the lid on a lot of suppressed experiences and emotions throughout my childhood and she provided me with guidance and examples of how to manage the emotions and become a much stronger adult.

I now feel much more in control of my own life and feel like I have the power to open and shut the lid and not let it take over. I would highly recommend Jessica as a counsellor. She has the perfect balance of being an incredible listener mixed with asking the right questions to let you ‘feel the emotions’ and providing lots of useful literature to support your thinking and journey.”

A - July 2024

“Jess has helped me a huge amount over the last few months we have been working together. I came to counselling with a lot of reservations, particularly after a period of counselling some years ago which I didn’t find helpful at all. What I came to learn was it’s essential to find the right person to start this journey with and I really believe Jess was that person for me.

Jess is kind and warm and has been a great advocate for me during this process. She has helped me understand feelings and insecurities I have held for what feels like my whole life and I honestly never thought it would be possible to move past these and the effects they had on the relationships with other people in my life.

Working on self-compassion, self-acceptance and self-advocacy have been at the heart of our sessions and over the months we’ve worked together I can see so many tangible changes and have been equipped with tools to move forward in a really positive way.

Whilst our sessions have come to a natural break for now, I would feel really confident to resume this journey again with Jess in the future, I can’t recommend her enough.”

L – June 2024

“I came to Jess for counselling towards the end of 2023 at a time when I was struggling with a lot of difficult feelings. I felt low, negative and stuck in many different areas of my life and overwhelmed with all of it. I had tried other therapists and not got on with them, but from my first session with Jess I felt a real connection and was able to open up and talk freely.

Over the next few months, I experienced a tangible change in myself through my sessions with Jess. While providing the kind, non-judgmental, down to earth ear I desperately needed, she also helped me recognise, react to and work through my feelings in a way that meant I was better equipped to deal with the times they hit me hardest. Jess’s way of working is different to that I’ve experienced in the past, in that she doesn’t provide ‘tools’ as such – it’s more that she helped me treat myself with patience and grace, listen to and validate my own instincts and have confidence in myself.

In between sessions, I could hear her words in my mind when I was faced with emotional moments, helping me move through them without letting them derail or overwhelm me. It’s this ongoing impact that I still feel today, several weeks after our last session – I know that those moments will still come, but thanks to Jess I feel more confident that I will be able to face them with more grace and self-compassion than I could before my time with her.

I highly recommend Jess as a counsellor and while in some ways I hope not to need more counselling, it’s comforting to know that I have found someone who will be able to support me in this way should I need it again in the future."

C – March 2024

"Sometimes in life you meet someone who you just click with, who you feel comfortable to share worries, concerns and issues without fear of judgement or fear of that information being shared with others. I wept within the first five minutes of talking with Jess. I had endured a year of hell, and my brain was struggling to cope with so much bad news. Jess encouraged me to let go of feelings I had tried to keep well within me, and the release I felt in being able to talk to someone so warm and kind, yet so professional and enlightening, was freeing. I have been on a short journey with Jess which I feel has changed me, from the inside out.

I understand myself and my personality in a way I have never done before. I basically found myself in her cosy studio, and I began to like myself after years of not feeling good enough. I discovered so much from why I overeat at times, why I make bad choices at times, why I seem to feel I need to ‘buy’ people in order to keep them, and why a fragile and sometimes hostile relationship with my parents, particularly my father, developed and affected other areas of my life without realising it. I cannot recommend Jess enough. When I felt I could move on without the sessions recently, I cried at the loss, despite realising that was a good thing.

Jess is someone who has found her perfect vocation as she is 100% right for helping people in crisis. We went through every emotion, crying, laughing, pondering. We made the journey together. Thank you, Jess, from the bottom of my (healing) heart."

K – February 2024

“I’ve been working with Jessica Hunter for around ten months and could not recommend her services more highly. Jess has listened, advised, empathised and advocated for me when I’ve needed it and the impact on my life has been huge. The space that she provides is warm and non judgmental and always honest. I am extremely grateful for Jess and the impact she has had on me.”

“I would highly recommend Jess as a therapist. Full of warmth, she helped me navigate our work together with both empathy and professionalism. I found the process challenging at times, but she created and held a safe, respectful space in which to explore difficult feelings and gave me encouragement when I needed it. As a result I now feel far better equipped to support my own emotional wellbeing."

A – December 2023

G – December 2023