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-centred 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.

12/02/2026

In my work, we bridge the gap between understanding and embodiment, so your body can actually feel the safety, boundaries, and pacing you intellectually agree with.

🌼 Because it’s one thing to say, “I need to rest.”
It’s another for your nervous system to believe it’s safe to stop.

🌼 It’s one thing to know you’re allowed to set boundaries. It’s another for your body not to brace for rejection when you do.

🌼 It’s one thing to recognise you’re stuck in a pattern.
It’s another to have the physiological capacity to choose differently.

Awareness happens in the mind.
Lived change happens when the body updates too.

That’s the difference between insight and integration.
Between knowing — and becoming.

Guiding you towards integration - on living life through your mind AND body - is something I love to do.
My diary is full just now and unable to take any new counselling clients on but feel free to message me to be out on the wait list! 😌
J

05/02/2026

Recently, I’ve been floored with a virus.
To try and get well again, I’ve had some weekend days in bed, some time off work, working very small days, carrying our bare minimum tasks, and I’ve been in bed by 8pm every night.

But it didn’t have to be like this at all.

In the weeks leading up to getting ill, I knew I was doing too much. I even named it out loud to people. I’d shared on my stories that I had to have a few productive weekends at home because of a big project and that I was trying to carve out time for myself alongside it. I was aware of the load - and I was doing my best to hold it.

But knowing isn’t always enough.

This is the quiet tension we live inside of.
We notice the signs, we try to compensate, we squeeze in rest around the edges, and sometimes we still let it go on too long.

From a somatic perspective, the body is constantly communicating long before it forces a pause. Through tightness, poor sleep, irritability, frequent colds, headaches, gut issues, low mood, brain fog, emotional reactivity. These aren’t random. They’re signals.

When those signals can’t be listened to because life, work, pressure, responsibility don’t allow space - the body eventually makes the decision for us.
Often at the most inconvenient times…..

Like when you finally get time off - When a long-awaited plan arrives - When your diary is full but your reserves are empty.

Rush culture teaches us to override, minimise, push through. Somatic work teaches us something different: the body knows the cost of doing that long before the mind does.

Resisting this culture isn’t about doing less perfectly. It’s about listening earlier. Adapting sooner. Allowing the body to guide the pace instead of waiting until it collapses.
And learning to hear that information - with less judgement and more honesty - is part of the work.

This is your sign that…
‘knowing’ isn’t enough.
‘Acknowledging’ isn’t enough.
‘Understanding’ isn’t enough.
‘Underpromising’ isn’t enough.

When you see the signs, what do you usually do??

27/01/2026

My last post didn’t age well……
😏

20/01/2026

Deadlines still exist. Responsibilities still exist. To do lists continue to exist.

But today, when I had a small window to make the most of 30 minutes, I walked, faced into the sun and enjoyed a present walk.
I noticed the golfers, especially the guy with the automatic caddy which drove by itself, the birds watching over the beach, the mass amounts of seaweed that had washed up, the ridges in the sand making it tricky to walk and every other little thing I passed.

If you saw my stories yesterday, you’d know that my weekend was very productive , which was a necessity this week, but that I was worn out and needed to find space for me this week in amongst the busy-ness.

So that’s what this was for me today. I showed up for myself in a busy week - not only when life feels easy.

Funnily enough, after this walk, the clouds came back and I retreated back inside to continue what I needed to do. But feeling 1 million times better for it.

I am an opportunistic, seasonally charged, emotional being who responds in the moment. Are you the same? Or would you miss out because ‘Tuesday is your laundry day?’ 🫠🤪

I urge you to think about how you can show up for yourself this week, even if it’s just 20 minutes.

Sending love!

14/01/2026

Supervision for me, is about creating a space where you don’t have to rush through a list of tasks, you don’t have to perform in a certain way and you certainly don’t need to have it all figured out.

Its a place to slow down, take a breath to land in a familiar and safe space, so we can think together. We can then bring the parts of the work that feel heavy, uncertain, quietly meaningful and wonderfully celebratory.
Supervision with me will be somewhere you can be met as a person, not just as a counsellor, and feel supported to grow in a way that feels right for you.

I currently have space to welcome one, maybe two supervisees. If something in this resonated, you’re very welcome to get in touch - even just for a conversation about whether it feels like a good fit.

Jacques

Address

Dunbar

Website

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

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