Jacqueline Green Counselling, Dunbar (2026)

I offer online and phone counselling sessions throughout the UK and additionally, face to face within East Lothian. All emotions, challenges, life experiences and difficulties are welcome in counselling. Some of my speciality areas include; adolescents, childhood trauma, attachment/ relationships, grief/bereavement, suicidal ideation, pre/postnatal difficulties and estrangement. As a person-centre

d counsellor, I adapt my practice depending on a person's unique needs to ensure that you get what you need out of counselling. I will offer you understanding, empathy and complete acceptance. I hope that this helps you to feel comfortable, trusted and safe, especially because talking through some of our most difficult feelings can be scary. By validating your emotions and experiences, and sometimes offering gentle challenge to gain insight and awareness, we can work together, at your own pace, to process and heal your difficulties and help you move forward in healthier ways, in a way that's more true to who you really are.

14/05/2026

I think sometimes social media can make it look like “showing up for yourself” has to be done perfectly. Like we should always be journaling, regulating, reflecting, exercising, healing, growing, resting, communicating beautifully, drinking enough water… all whilst somehow functioning as normal humans too 🫠

But real life usually looks a bit messier than that.

Some weeks I do these things often. Some weeks only once or twice. Some weeks not at all.

And I think that’s the point.
A lot of the things that support us aren’t meant to become another pressure or standard we fail to meet. They’re just small ways we can gently respond to ourselves when we have the capacity, awareness, energy, or space to do so.

Not perfection. Not optimisation. Just small choices, repeated where we can.

Life can be hard. Circumstances change. Energy changes. We don’t always have full control over that.
But sometimes we can offer ourselves a little softness within it.

And honestly….. I think “enough of the time” is often enough. I mean, one of my favourite sayings I live by is…
‘we can’t do everything all of the time’. 🤍

*right well I’m away to drink water because THAT has been hard for me this week 🫠

28/04/2026

And it’s only Tuesday 🤪🥲

….I’m sharing this because so many people think growth means getting everything “right”.
That other people have it all together…. Like therapists or elders or the person you saw holding it together incredibly well yesterday.

But it doesn’t mean that.

Growth is continuous.
It often looks like noticing your patterns sooner.
It looks like taking accountability without tearing yourself down.
It looks like making a mess of things sometimes, then meeting yourself with compassion and adjusting course.

We are not here to be perfect.
We are here to be aware, honest, and willing to begin again.

I’m only human. As you are.
And I’m on this journey too.

So I’m going to make myself a cuppa, give myself a little moment to feel all the feels, talk to myself kindly, maybe give myself a little hug, and move forwards this week with self kindness, understanding and encouragement 🤍

I hope you can do the same J x

13/04/2026

So many people come to therapy believing they are the problem. That something in them needs fixing.

But most of the time, what we’re looking at are responses that made sense at some point.
Patterns your body learned to help you cope, manage, get through. And in fact, these are highly intelligent responses from our bodies and it means your body is doing what it’s meant to - keep you aware - to survive!

The work I do isn’t about getting rid of symptoms. It’s not about helping you learn more coping strategies so you can ‘tolerate’ more pain. It’s not about ‘fixing’ you.

It’s about getting curious about what shaped them in the first place. This is crucial to helping you move forward. Understanding quite often that it didn’t start with you.
With more understanding of the systems at play, you can build capacity to choose differently.
Helping you to resist, where appropriate, and cope with compassion when needed.

Because when you understand your responses as adaptations that your body makes - not flaws - something shifts.

The shame lessens as you realise they are not a personal failing.
There’s less judgement and more compassion.
More choice.

This is where the blend of talking therapy and somatic work matters.

Not just making sense of your story, but noticing how it’s still held in your body. The tension, the bracing, the habits that keep things in place.

And gently, at your pace, creating space for something different.

You’re not the problem.

But your experiences deserve your attention.

J x

18/03/2026

It’s at that moment you see my eyes clock my water bottle. This massive, crushed and old plastic bottle from earlier that week - still going strong.
It definitely doesn’t match the whole ‘calm, put together therapist with a glass of water’ vibe I could be going for here.

But I use it anyway - with a [ooops here I am as a person and not a polished therapist] smile 💁‍♀️ and then we both burst into laughter!

At other times, it might be an in joke we share and laughter, a light reflection on something heavy from the week before, an absolutely disgusting gigantic water bottle, a side smile when we see what’s happening, a runny nose or cough that finds its way in at crucial times, coffee spilt down your top, your dog barking into the laptop, or even a window cleaner popping up and making me jump out my chair 😂
- the list goes on.

A light moment like this that lets the relationship speak for itself. It might not look much, but it’s the relationship we have that makes therapy feel possible, effective, safe. And I work relationally.

It might be because I’ve been doing this so long I don’t overthink these things anymore.
It might be that I just feel comfortable with whatever it brings up.
It might be that I trust the safety between us and can hold both the heavy and the light.
Whatever it is - I’m professional sure - but also HUMAN! And you are welcome to show up as a human too. Not a performer, not as a people pleaser, not as someone who needs to question what I’m thinking…. Just human. Whatever that looks like for you…. And if you struggle with that - I’m here to help you. J x

13/03/2026

As cringy as it might sound for some people, one of the first things I often do when someone arrives in therapy is notice how they’re in their body.
How are they arriving?
Whats the body holding from the morning passed?

Throughout our session together, we might pause and check in with how a story or memory feels physically - the tension in the shoulders, the lump in the throat, the tightness in the chest, the way the stomach twists, the energy radiating from the hands.
Just noticing what’s happening in the body as we explore what’s coming up. This is where my work bridges the gap between thoughts and body…. And it really helps us to heal and not ‘just talk about it’.

That same principle applies outside of therapy.
There are little pockets of time already in your day - a moment by the kettle, a pause in the car, standing in a queue - that can become small reminders to breathe, notice, soften, and come back into yourself.

This week on my reel I explored that idea and this carousel takes it a little further.

No extra time needed.
No big routines.
No life hack and big commitments.

Just tiny moments that are ALREADY there, quietly waiting for you to notice.

Even the smallest pause can help your nervous system settle, let your mind come down from overdrive, and remind you that you don’t always have to be “doing” to matter.

Sometimes all it takes is a brief moment of presence, right where you already are.
J x

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Dunbar

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http://www.jacquelinegreencounselling.co.uk/

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