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Therapy with Janine

BACP Registered Counsellor. Short-term and long-term counselling, face to face and online for adult individuals. Based in Rayleigh, Essex.

I help people navigate the ups and downs of life and restore calm and balance. www.therapywithjanine.co.uk As a person-centred counsellor, I work with adult individuals both face to face and online via Zoom helping with a wide variety of issues. The person-centred approach means that I am here to listen without judgement, to offer a safe and confidential space for you to explore what is going on in your world and to help you make sense of things. I won't tell you what to do as I believe that we all hold our own answers deep down - but sometimes we just need a little support in figuring things out. I draw on my training and knowledge to offer therapeutic insights from a range of Psychology and Psychotherapy models. I tailor my approach to each client that I see as I don't believe in 'one size fits all'. Your experience of therapy should be as unique as you are and I work collaboratively with you to work out what approach will work best for you. There is no set number of sessions that you need to have - I offer both short term and longer term options. We can discuss this in our first session. One of the most important factors when embarking on counselling is the relationship between counsellor and client. Developing a good relationship based on mutual trust and respect will enhance your experience of therapy and is the most effective vehicle for change. To make sure that we are a good fit for each other, I offer a free 15 minute initial phone call so that we can get to know each other before deciding whether to work together. It's an opportunity for you to tell me a little about why you are seeking counselling at this time and ask any questions. I will tell you about me and how I work and from there we can set up an appointment to meet for our first session. To book an initial phone call, email me at therapywithjanine@gmail.com
or text 07752 859919

24/11/2025

💞💞💞SELF LOVE 💞💞💞

Something I’ve learned over the years as a therapist is that most of us haven’t got a scooby doo about what self love is! Much less how to practice it!!

As the below quote says:

Self love is prioritising our own emotions and wellbeing over trying to please others.

This is not the same as thinking we are more important than everyone else. This is about recognising our own worth as being at least equal to everyone else! And not harming ourselves in the pursuit of keeping others happy.

Easy, right!?!

Erm…no, actually. 🙈

Lots of us fall into the trap of prioritising other people’s happiness over our own. Somehow we’ve been led by society and popular culture to believe that putting our own needs first is selfish! Heaven forbid we say no to someone else’s demands and listen to our own gut instincts about what feels right for us!

Have you ever found yourself agreeing to something but your insides are screaming at you ‘nooooooo’? 😱

Agreed to take an extra task on at work when you already know you don’t have the capacity? 🤯

Said yes to a night out that you really don’t want to attend, but worried about letting others down? 🥺

Too often we downplay our own feelings and needs and twist ourselves in knots like a pretzel to please others, and there can me many reasons for this. 🥨

Perhaps this is how we survived childhood. Maybe the only way to keep ourselves emotionally or even physically safe was to put others before ourselves.

But this all comes at a hefty cost. It turns us into perpetual people pleasers and eventually we burnout. 😵‍💫

Along the way, we lose sight of ourselves. We become an unrecognisable version of who we really are and end up prioritising everyone else to our own detriment.

An important step in the healing process is to start to see ourselves as worthy of prioritising. To know that it’s absolutely fine to say no to things we don’t wish to do, and to listen to our own needs. 🥰

To see ourselves as worthy of having valid feelings and opinions even if they are different to those around us.

People pleasing is something that many of us struggle with but if you’d like some help and support to learn how to love and value yourself, reach out, I’m ready to support you.

You were not put on the earth to please everyone else - you are here to live your life, your way.

Get in touch today.

💻 www.therapywithjanine.co.uk

📧 hello@therapywithjanine.co.uk

21/11/2025

A beautiful afternoon to get outside and celebrate the end of the working week.

A great reminder that we can enjoy the outdoors even this time of year. I do love a sunny day in winter ❄️☀️🕶️

The Golden Hour is my most favourite time of day.

Have a great weekend everyone x

10/11/2025

Wow this popped up as a memory today from 4 years ago!

And what a fab memory it is!! 🌟

Counselling training is hard! It requires a lot of self-reflection, looking at your own patterns and healing from your own past traumas and experiences.

Not to mention completing 100 clinical practice hours 😬

It took me 4 years of part time study alongside raising my family and working but I got there!

And I’m so glad I did! 🙏🏼

I now get to support other people on their healing journeys 🫶🏻

25/10/2025

Things I’m grateful for today…

Finding one of the Liz Gilbert books that I haven’t yet read in my local charity shop!

And my new notebook. Isn’t she pretty! 🤩

I love a good notebook, don’t you?! 📔

24/10/2025

Therapy With Janine is 4 years old today!!

I must admit, this snuck on me, I hadn’t realised it was 4 years ago today that I launched my private practice until it popped up as a Facebook memory.

And boy, has a lot happened in that time! 😄

I’ve grown my practice alongside working as a school counsellor supporting teens, I helped create and set up two further businesses and I’ve built my own therapy room which I’m now seeing clients from full time!

It’s not until we look back sometimes that we see how far we’ve come.

I have to say, I’m feeling just a little bit proud of myself and how hard I’ve worked to get here.

It’s not always been easy but I have a full and thriving practice and I get to support lots of lovely people which is where my heart has always been. 💕

Feeling very grateful.

Here’s to the next 4 years! 🥂

10/10/2025

Today is World Mental Health Day and this year feels particularly heavy for lots of us as we try to make sense of the ever-changing world we live in along with tending to our own personal issues and lives.

This year's theme is 'access to services - mental health in catastrophes and emergencies'. The theme highlights the importance of people being able to protect their mental health in times of global instability.

In a world that bombards us constantly with information, it’s important to make sure we are taking breaks from the news and think about what we are consuming.

It’s ok to take digital breaks when we need to; this doesn’t mean we don’t care. But we must all protect our mental health and take the power back into our own hands so that we can work on building resilience and develop our capacity to deal with life.

Whatever you’re doing today, I encourage you to go outside, look up at the sky and listen to the birds. Let’s not lose the little things to the constant noise of the big things.

💕 I hope you have a good, relaxing weekend ☺️

08/10/2025

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the only UK event for the launch of Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir, ‘All The Way To The River’. 😄

The book is about Liz’s relationship with her best friend Rayya who then became Liz’s partner, but only after Rayya received a diagnosis of terminal cancer in which she was given only six months to live.

The pair thought they were embarking on a beautiful romantic journey that would see Liz walk Rayya ‘all the way to the river’, but what they actually got was eighteen months of chaos, destruction and darkness as Rayya plummeted back into her drug addiction after years of sobriety, and Liz spiralled deeper into her s*x and love addiction and codependency.

All in all, a recipe for disaster!

‘All The Way To The River’ is a brutally honest account of Liz and Rayya’s relationship from beginning to end and it delves into addiction and codependency with a realness you won’t see in other books.

If your interested to learn more about these topics, I’d highly recommend it. I think it could help a lot of people.

I’ve been a fan of Liz since I discovered her iconic first memoir, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ more than ten years ago and then her other books including another favourite of mine, ‘Big Magic - Creative Living Beyond Fear’.

I quickly became a fan of her writing but more than that, she became one of my spiritual teachers, sharing not only the wisdom she’s acquired through her own life but also the wisdom of her own spiritual teachers and guides.

If you are or have been a client of mine, you might have heard me talk about Liz from time to time as her insights into fear particularly resonated strongly with me and I’ve used what I’ve learned to help my clients along the way.

I’ve also shared insights from her ‘Magic Lessons’ podcast and her ‘Letters From Love’, the daily practice of writing letters to yourself from the spirit of unconditional love, which she talks about over on Substack.

Last night, I got to tell Liz how much ‘Big Magic’ helped me, and how I’ve shared her insights with my clients over the years. Liz doesn’t consider herself any kind of guru but she was thrilled that ‘Big Magic’ has had such a ripple effect! 💕

Being able to share my gratitude with her was a really special moment 💕

01/10/2025

I watched this yesterday on YouTube and as a long time Madonna fan, it was really nice to see a different side to her. It’s long at 2 hours but well worth a listen in my opinion, especially if you are interested in spirituality. 🤍

17/09/2025

What’s the difference between counselling and therapy? 🤔

These terms are used pretty interchangeably. Both involve sitting with a trained professional talking through issues that are affecting your life.

Counselling is often seen as shorter term, usually focusing on a particular issue or life event such as a separation, life transition, or bereavement.

Therapy often takes place over a longer period, and delves deeper into past experiences that may still be impacting on the present. Often patterns of relating to others and the self are explored, past experiences, unconscious processes, and maybe past trauma.

Whatever’s going on for you - if there are issues you need help or support with, reach out and let’s have a conversation about how counselling or therapy could help.

hello@therapywithjanine.co.uk

12/09/2025

Following on my from my other post a few days ago about being authentic, I wanted to continue the conversation.

I want to take a moment to acknowledge how for most of us, it can feel really hard to shed other people’s expectations and live in a way that feels true to us.

But for some, the stakes are exceptionally high. Some people face the very real possibility of being outcast from their family or community if they reveal who they truly are - or who they love. Or that they see the world differently.

If they come out as anything that is not considered ‘the norm’, - if they don’t fit the traditional roles that society has deemed as the way life ‘should be’.

And if they dare, to speak of a different way of ‘doing life’ or ‘being’, they are cast out and effectively abandoned, just for daring to present themselves to the world.

Some people spend their lives working up the courage to stand tall and true in their own skin, only to be shot down in flames and to have love and acceptance taken away by those they love and cherish the most.

If this speaks to you, I see you.

I understand the complexity of trying to figure out how much of yourself to give up or hide in order to stay accepted and approved of. Or how to deal with unimaginable losses if you chose to be who you really are whatever the cost.

Being you shouldn’t be as hard as it is. And I’m so sorry that some people spend their life living in other people’s cages.

I’ve always loved this quote from Carl Jung, but I am sitting here now wondering if being who we truly are is actually a privilege, or is it our fundamental right? 🤔💭

Answers on a postcard please. 🙏🏼

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