Janet Kwegan, BACP

Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with ten years of experience working across NHS services, charities and community settings. She holds BACP accreditation, and her work has included time in a hospice, a bereavement agency, a perinatal mental health charity, a cancer support centre, a women’s centre and a men’s counselling service.

Janet takes an existential approach and focuses on how each person experiences their world. She will help people talk about relationships, identity, values and the choices that shape their lives. Sessions aim to make difficult feelings clearer and more manageable.

Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, addictions and stress. She also works with parenting and family matters, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, chronic illness and caregiver strain. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, body image and communication problems.

Janet draws on several therapeutic methods and adapts them to the needs of the person in front of her. She uses client-centred listening alongside elements from cognitive behavioural and emotion-focused work when helpful. The aim is practical: to notice patterns, try new ways of responding, and build useful coping tools.

People come to Janet for short-term support with a specific problem or for deeper work to understand themselves better. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space and works collaboratively to set clear goals and steps for change.

How her approaches translate to online work

Janet uses Attachment-Based ideas and Client-Centred Therapy in her work. Attachment-based thinking looks at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness and can help with intimacy and communication problems. Client-centred therapy focuses on empathic listening, helping people feel heard so they can explore difficult feelings and choices at their own pace.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques when helpful to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments to change behaviour. CBT tools can be useful for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties.

Finding the right approach is a joint process. Janet works with each person to identify goals and then tailors methods to match those goals and preferences. She invites people to review what is or is not helping as therapy progresses so the plan can be adjusted.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around everyday life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists with clinical experience like Janet, can use these ways of meeting to deliver focused, ongoing support.