Jay (They/them)

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I’m Jay (They/them). Human. Professional. Down to earth psychotherapist with a quiet confidence, neuroscience-informed, intuitive ; scientist and artist at heart. Trained in multiple modalities, with more than a decade of post-qualified experience across diverse sectors, including Ministry of Justice, NHS, prisons, EAPs, and NGOs. All faith (or none) / spirituality are welcome, and will be honoured and can be tailored in your psychotherapeutic journey if you wish. Published author and editorial board member by appointment on clinical journals, yet I naturally speak mostly with my hands, simple words and metaphors.

At present I offer:

- long to mid-short term psychotherapy, EMDR (general and attachment focus);
- coaching (general life coaching and/or focus: neurodiversity / self-care / post-traumatic growth / minority stress);
- consultations for therapists / mental health professionals (qualified or in training); Experience in training and mentoring therapists re: trauma-informed practice, forensic/prison practice, academic writing.

Sexual identity:

Queer

Gender identity: Non-binary

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Non-monogamy: No

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Yes

Personal pronouns: They / Them

Qualifications - Links to websites:

UKCP & BACP Psychotherapist

HCPC Arts Psychotherapist

EMDR Europe and EMDR UK

SCID-D Assessor for Dissociative Disorders

Former Expert Witness and Contributor to Forensic Reports for Ministry of Justice.

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

Jay is a highly experienced and specialised psychotherapist, having worked substantially across a range of psychotherapeutic services in the prisons, NHS, charity sector, and private mental health, delivering transformative psychotherapy, as well as mentoring and training therapists in training.

Whilst they are experienced in working with a broad range of mental health issues and difficult life experience, she is a specialist in the healing and recovery of trauma (including treatment of PTSD and Complex PTSD), complex trauma, grief, complex grief, the impact of attachment and relational trauma, childhood unmet needs, toxic family dynamics, and alongside this, effective intervention for the experience of “Hearing Voices” and a range of dissociative experiences through the model of Structural Dissociation.

Compassionate, collaborative, intuitive (at times energetically passionate; at times playful!) in inviting compassion and curiosity for the range of often painful experience and wounded aspects of ourselves as human that desperately needed and wanted healing, but also naturally not easy (to say the least!) to bring attention to.

A parallel part of the therapeutic process they offer, is also in facilitating with you, (re)connection with your inner wisdom - nurturing, rebuilding resourceful parts of yourself, which could have naturally been impacted by trauma and/or losses.

They draw upon a range of contemporary, up-to-date, attachment sensitive, neurobiologically-informed, practical psychotherapeutic approaches, alongside some of the principle and philosophy of existential, gestalt, and depth psychology, tailoring to your unique emotional and relational terrain as a person, and the context of your therapeutic needs. Models she draws upon includes: AIP: Adaptive Information Process model (EMDR), in layman terms, your innate natural inner healing process, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family System (IFS), Structural Dissociation Model and compassionate, person-centred interpretation of psychodynamics.

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